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Opening chaos shows this Dáil is in for a bumpy ride

Opening chaos shows this Dáil is in for a bumpy ride

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...

31.01.2025 10

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Trump can have bigger impact on Ireland than Government

Trump can have bigger impact on Ireland than Government

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...

24.01.2025 10

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Galway conquers junior seats at the Cabinet table

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....

17.01.2025 10

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Political shoegazing at the start of a busy year ahead

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...

10.01.2025 10

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State of the parties going into new political season

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...

03.01.2025 4

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Eight political lessons and moments from the last year

World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in the day, Bertie Ahern led Fianna Fáil to three general election victories – yet the party’s...

25.12.2024 4

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Drilling deep down through Galway’s voting patterns

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...

20.12.2024 3

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The real battles only begin after the votes are counted

World of Politics with Harry McGee The late John Cunningham, former editor of the Connacht Tribune, probably taught me more than anyone else about...

13.12.2024 5

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Six takeaways from the General Election

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...

05.12.2024 20

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The people will have spoken but what will they have said?

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...

28.11.2024 30

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A week to go and election campaign has yet to ignite

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,...

21.11.2024 4

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Drilling down to determine how the west will be won

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...

14.11.2024 4

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Transfers will again be the key factor in Galway West

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...

07.11.2024 10

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Plenty of permutations in expanded Galway East

World of Politics with Harry McGee Between now and the election, I will be looking at constituencies in the bailiwick of the Connacht Tribune,...

31.10.2024 3

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Sinn Féin moves from crisis to crisis to General Election

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...

24.10.2024 10

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Sinn Féin’s implosion casts real doubts over leadership

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...

17.10.2024 2

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Political surprises that come back to haunt at polling time

World of Politics with Harry McGee They call it the October Surprise; in US Presidential election campaigns, there is an expectation that something...

10.10.2024 8

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Election sets the seal on November election

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...

03.10.2024 3

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Hospital and bike racks prove Government’s bottomless pit

World of Politics with Harry McGee The first lesson you learn about politics is that nothing stands still. Things change – sometimes slowly; often...

26.09.2024 3

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Harris plough deep furrow on a firm election footing

World of Politics with Harry McGee And so school is back with TDs and Senators traipsing reluctantly into Leinster House this week, trailing their...

19.09.2024 2

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Galway battle lines almost drawn regardless of the election date

World of Politics with Harry McGee The battle lines are almost drawn for the two Galway constituencies ahead of the general election whenever that...

12.09.2024 40

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Blind to grim reality that was happening all around us

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...

05.09.2024 3

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Coalition fooling no one on timescale for election

World of Politics with Harry McGee Every day a Minister appears in Merrion Street and dutifully declares – with a poker face – that the Government...

29.08.2024 5

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How Galway’s runners are shaping up for election race

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...

22.08.2024 4

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Conventions show the big guns on an election footing

World of Politics with Harry McGee The Maynooth political geographer Adrian Kavanagh put up a telling graphic on Twitter/X during the week, which...

15.08.2024 60

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Harris’ blitzkreig sees Fine Gael firmly on the front foot

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...

08.08.2024 2

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Sinn Féin is unlikely to replicate its 2020 election performance

Every general election has an issue that might not fully determine the outcome but defines the political contest. In 2016, it was water charges....

04.08.2024 3

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Sporting success can prove pathway to political triumph

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...

01.08.2024 10

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Biden departure takes age out of the equation

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...

25.07.2024 3

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Trump shooting underlines the ever-present danger in politics

World of Politics with Harry McGee Should we have been surprised at the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on...

18.07.2024 3

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