Local Sinn Féin TD cut from front bench

A Laois/Offaly Sinn Féin TD has lost his post on the party's front bench.

Brian Stanley, who had previously been the party's spokesperson in the last Dail on Agriculture and Rural & Community Development, did not make the cut this time around.

The role was instead given to new Cavan/Monaghan TD Matt Carthy.

Here's the new Sinn Féin front bench.

Mary Lou McDonald - Leader of the Opposition

Pearse Doherty - Finance

Louise O'Reilly - Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Eoin O'Broin - Housing, Heritage and Local Government

Mairead Farrell - Public Expenditure and Reform

David Cullinane - Health

Kathleen Funchion - Children, Disability, Equality and Integration

Matt Carthy - Agriculture, Food and Marine

Claire Kerrane - Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and The Islands

Donnachadh O Laoghaire - Education

Rose Conway Walsh - Higher Education, Innovation and Science

Darren O'Rourke - Climate Action, Communications, Networks and Transport

Martin Kenny - Justice

Imelda Munster - Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and The Gaeltacht

John Brady - Foreign Affairs and Defence

Aengus O Snodaigh - Gaeilge, Gaeltacht Culture and Arts

Padraig Mac Lochlainn - Party Whip

Niall O Donnghaile - Seanad Leader.