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World of Politics with Harry McGee I remember vividly the moment when we realised that the crisis facing Ireland was no longer an economic one but...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Never mix sports and politics, they say – but how can you avoid it? Sport is political. In fact, everything is...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Last week, the HSE announced its programme for capital projects around the country. These are new hospital...
World of Politics with Harry McGee We have been learning a lot of new phrases in the past few months since Donald Trump came into power in January: a...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The world may be on the verge of ruin, but the Dáil has more important fish to fry this week, namely the exposé...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There was a time when the Irish economy wasn’t performing quite so spectacularly that column writers liked to do...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Collaboration between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael isn’t something that was invented after the 2020 election;...
World of Politics with Harry McGee That was a blast from the past that we did not see coming. On Tuesday, the Irish Independent reported that new...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Sounding off about Donald Trump in the Tribune leaves you open to the risk of putting yourself in the position of...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Dick Walsh was a celebrated political journalist who worked for the Irish Times. He wrote a book about Fianna...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There was a game show on TV in the 1970s with a novel concept for the time. Three people would come on and all...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There have been some very prospective candidates for the Presidency over the years – but few were as eccentric...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I’ve been writing about politics full-time for 22 years now and even though there’s a certain ‘rinse and...
World of Politics with Harry McGee And so it came to pass. The great moment when the man so often denigrated, so often overlooked, so often cast into...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The first Minister I ever recall meeting was Tom O’Donnell, a Limerick TD, who was Minister for the Gaeltacht....
World of Politics with Harry McGee I have a friend whose family business was shoes. He was so steeped in the tradition that he once told me that his...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The first moment you see a Government fail is the moment it is formed; that might seem very pessimistic but to...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in the day, Bertie Ahern led Fianna Fáil to three general election victories – yet the party’s...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Nobody is ever going to give you a definite and scientific analysis of exactly how many transfers will go from...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The late John Cunningham, former editor of the Connacht Tribune, probably taught me more than anyone else about...
World of Politics with Harry McGee In the 2020 election Fianna Fáil got 22.2 per cent of the vote and Fine Gael got 20.9 per cent. Four years...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It’s the little things that trip you up, as the late Albert Reynolds put it ruefully after his resignation in...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It would be fatuous to say that if the posters weren’t up, you would not know there was an election. Of course,...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in 2011, Fine Gael performed an electoral feat in Mayo that may never be surpassed; the party took four...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in 2002, the Progressive Democrats came up with a strategy to succeed Bobby Molloy. Instead of running one...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Between now and the election, I will be looking at constituencies in the bailiwick of the Connacht Tribune,...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There are times when politics moves slowly and there are times when it moves at the dizzying stomach-churning...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I was at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis only a few weeks ago when the party’s strategists were telling me then that...
World of Politics with Harry McGee They call it the October Surprise; in US Presidential election campaigns, there is an expectation that something...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The dust hasn’t settled on the budget, but – if any further indication was required – we now know everything is...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The first lesson you learn about politics is that nothing stands still. Things change – sometimes slowly; often...
World of Politics with Harry McGee And so school is back with TDs and Senators traipsing reluctantly into Leinster House this week, trailing their...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The battle lines are almost drawn for the two Galway constituencies ahead of the general election whenever that...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I grew up in Galway City during the 1970s and 1980s. I’m not sure what the population of the city was at the...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Every day a Minister appears in Merrion Street and dutifully declares – with a poker face – that the Government...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Lesson number one in politics is that nothing stands still and nothing remains the same. It’s like driving a new...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The Maynooth political geographer Adrian Kavanagh put up a telling graphic on Twitter/X during the week, which...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It’s a strange situation that Fine Gael finds itself in, with almost half of its TDs not standing in the...
Every general election has an issue that might not fully determine the outcome but defines the political contest. In 2016, it was water charges....
World of Politics with Harry McGee In the build-up to the All-Ireland final at Croke Park last Sunday, they showed footage of Galway winning the...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The oldest person to become Taoiseach was Seán Lemass, who was just shy of 60 when he succeeded Eamon de Valera...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Should we have been surprised at the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on...
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