Richard Bruton grew up in Dunboyne, County Meath, and was educated at Belvedere College, Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin and Nuffield College, Oxford. At Oxford, he graduated with a MPhil in Economics, his thesis being on the subject of Irish public debt. After university he worked at the Economic and Research Institute. Richard has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Bay North since 2016, and previously from 1982 to 2016 in Dublin North-Central. He is currently the Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party since July 2020.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/portraitsofclongowes/message

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