Solicitor Mairead Ni Ghabhain has been appointed to the board of the North South Language Body.

She is one of two Irish Government nominees to the body approved at a meeting of the North South Ministerial Council in Dublin today (13 September).

Irish-language broadcaster Gemma Ní Chionnaith was the other Government nominee to join the language body’s board.

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Ní Chionnaith and Ní Ghabháin have been appointed to the board of Foras na Gaeilge, one of the agencies of the North South Language Body, for a four-year term.

Ní Ghabháin is a partner at the law firm Matheson LLP, and qualified as a solicitor in 2011.

She attained a Higher Diploma in Lawyer-Linguistics and Legal Translation from the King’s Inns in 2011.

She has spent years as an instructor and examiner for the Law Society’s Irish-language courses. In 2014, she was appointed to the Irish Legal Terms Advisory Committee as the representative of the Law Society.