Complex sentence: Gallagher was educated at St Aloysius College, Glasgow and then at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities and joined the Scottish Office in 1976 to work in the Home and Development departments as well as in several other posts.
Split into simpler sentences: Gallagher was educated at St Aloysius College, Glasgow and then at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities. He joined the Scottish Office in 1976 to work in the Home and Development departments as well as in several other posts.