World of Politics with Harry McGee

I remember years ago reading a wonderful travel piece on Greenland written by A.A. Gill about a place many times larger than Ireland, but with a tiny population of just 57,000.

Its capital, Nuuk, he said, looked more like a sleepy provincial seaside town. Gill opened by describing Greenland as a place pilots point out on transatlantic flights.

“If you look out your right-hand window now, passengers, you can see Greenland,” they would proclaim.

Gill would fall asleep, have his meal, watch a........

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