“On a Saturday, you could meet Peter in the shop in Wellington boots before he takes care of animals on the family farm, but on a Friday night he could have been in Brussels,” Johnny Geoghegan, spokesperson for Mullingar Chamber of Commerce and business development director with the property developer Lagan Homes, told The Currency.  He meant Peter Burke, the 41-year-old local Longford-Westmeath Fine Gael TD just appointed as minister for enterprise by new Taoiseach Simon Harris. “We’re over the moon here,” Geoghegan said.  Burke’s roots in the midlands and farming was undoubtedly an asset in his selection for a…

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