Local TD on Sinn Fein's front bench

A local Sinn Fein TD has been given a front bench portfolio.

Roscommon/Galway's Claire Kerrane has this afternoon been appointed as the party's front bench spokesperson on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and The Islands.

Kerrane (pictured) is a first-time TD as is her Longford/Westmeath counterpart Sorca Clarke, who was not named among the 15 frontbenchers.

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

Here's the Sinn Fein 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.