He has been appointed as an alternate director on the board of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Eoin lost the European Parliament seat he first won in 2004 lost in last year’s election to Joe Higgins, of the Socialist Party.
This despite being the top spender in the elections in the Republic, with expenses of almost €215,000.
He will now serve a three-year term at an annual salary of €125,614.
He replaces the very impressive Anne Counihan, UCD graduate, a solicitor both in Ireland and England, a graduate of the advanced management programme at Harvard Business School, a former member of the Irish Aviation Authority Board and the board of Bord na Móna for five years.
She is also president of the Corporate and Public Lawyers Association, the main Irish association of in-house lawyers.
Eoins main qualification is that he comes from a family steeped in Fianna Fáil.
His father was a Senator, and FF's director of elections in the 1977 general election.
His grandfather was a cabinet minister in various Fianna Fáil governments.
Eoin was educated at St. Mary's College, Rathmines, College of Commerce, Rathmines and Kildalton Horticulture College, County Kilkenny.
He was elected to Dublin City Council in 1985.
In 1989 he was elected to Seanad Éireann.
In 1992 he was elected to Dáil Éireann and again in 1997.
In 1999 he was made Minister of State with responsibility for National Drug Strategy.
In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency.
The bank in was established in 1991 to help develop a new private sector in the countries of the former Soviet bloc - i.e. outsourcing to cheaper wage zones.
We have economists, and unemployed trained bankers in this country - people far more qualified for the position.
Why can we not have Oireachtas approval hearings?
We should at least to ensure that important appointments will be for the benefit of the state as opposed to party hacks.
But for Eoin it is a nice little earner
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