Original sentence: Since her appointment to the Education & Science portfolio, she has cultivated good relations with the teacher trade unions, following a difficult period evident during the incumbancy of her predecessor, Noel Dempsey
Edited sentence: Like most female cabinet members Hanafin has been touted as a possible future leader of Fianna Fáil and possible first female Taoiseach.Since her appointment to the Education & Science portfolio, she has cultivated good relations with the teacher trade unions, following a period of strain which was evident during the incumbancy of her predecessor, Noel Dempsey