Simon Coveney will be 52 on June 16. His father, Hugh, was 62 when he drowned following a fall when out walking the family dogs by the sea at Robert’s Cove in Cork in 1998. Simon was 25 at the time. Six months after his father’s death, he contested and won the Cork South Central by-election. He has been a full-time public representative since. He has spent half his life working as a politician. Circumstances have convinced him that it is time for a change of direction. For a particular subset of politicians, the minister for foreign affairs role is…

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