The son of an ex-Fianna Fáil minister has been appointed the minister for health in Wales.
Dr Brian Gibbons (54), originally from Roscommon, was promoted to Health Minister in the Cardiff parliament after five years as an Assembly Member.
Dr Gibbons left Ireland in 1976 to take up vocational training in general practice in Yorkshire before moving to the valleys of south Wales in 1980.
His father, Hugh Gibbons, also a doctor and politician, held a seat in the Dáil for Fianna Fáil during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Dr Gibbons, a trade unionist, is one of the most popular AMs at Cardiff Bay and one of the few Labour politicians to increase their majority at the 2003 Assembly elections.
He is married with two grown-up children and continues to live in Blaengwynfi in the Upper Afan Valley.