LaoisToday Podcast: Pippa Hackett on Government, the Greens, farming and her political rise

<p>Green Party Senator and Super Junior Minister Pippa Hackett joins us to chat about her background, from growing up in Mayo to going to college in Wales, working in UCD and UL, farming in Offaly and joining the Green Party in 2016. </p> <p>She chats about her political rise as she went from councillor to senator to minister in a little over a year. </p> <p>She discusses what it was like being part of Government formation talks, being told by Micheal Martin of her ministerial appointment and what it's like now being away from home so often. </p>