Timothy Gallagher has been appointed the head of the FBI Newark Division, New Jersey.
A man with strong Donegal connections has been appointed as a Special Agent – and will now be in charge of the FBI Newark Division, New Jersey.
Timothy Gallagher, was appointed to the prestigious position earlier this month – and leaves his most recent role in which he served as a deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division in Washington.
His grandfather was Barney Gallagher who originally hailed from Burtonport, but he emigrated to New York in 1915.
His grandmother was Maggie ‘Frank’ Gallagher from Mullaghduff and she emigrated in 1924 to New York City, and that’s where she met and married Barney.
Timothy visited Donegal with his father Bernie, mother Maureen and sister Eileen and his grandmother Maggie when he was just a child in 1972.
They visited Cloughglass, Mullaghduff and Castleport during their visit to Donegal, and it was his grandmothers last visit home before she died.
Gallagher has dozens of cousins in Donegal and is extremely proud of his Donegal and Irish roots.
Gallagher is also famed in the US, for being one of the first agents as part of the Evidence Response Team, which responded to the site of the crash of United Flight 93 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001.
He started his career FBI Special Agent in May 1996 in the Cleveland Division’s Canton Resident Agency, with responsibility for investigating all criminal programs.
Gallagher would be a cousin of well-known Burtonport fishermen Michael ‘Minnie’ Gallagher and Glasgow based entrepreneur Connell Boyle.
Gallagher will assume this new role at the end of March.
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