Complex sentence: Following the re-election of the out-going government at the 2002 general election, Fahey was demoted to the post of junior Minister at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the re-election of the out-going government at the 2002 general election, Fahey was not retained in the Cabinet as a senior Minister. Instead he was appointed as a junior Minister at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.