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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 Saturday...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The first significant typo I made was in the Connacht Tribune office in July 1989. I had just started working...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There have been a lot of changes this year in politics – and we’re only over the halfway point; two leaders...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It was one of those weeks in politics where it was hard to keep tabs on everything – a new Commissioner; a new...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Five points to make as the dust finally settles on the European and local elections – and the first is that...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I’ve never forgotten They Shoot Horses Don’t They? It was a classic 1970s film starring Jane Fonda which I...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There is an ugly face to political protest in Ireland these days that was not evident pre-Covid, because there is...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Politicians say publicly they pay no heed to polls. The only poll that matters, so the cliche goes, is the one...
World of Politics with Harry McGee My colleague in The Irish Times, Joe Humphreys, wrote a fascinating article some weeks back about an infamous...
World of Politics with Harry McGee In the 2014 election for the Midland North West constituency there were 14 candidates vying for four seats. In...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The role of Mayors in Irish cities and, sometimes, counties has long been largely ceremonial and symbolic,...
World of Politics with Harry McGee When you look at the photographs now, 43 years on, you’re shocked how young they were. Many of the 800 people...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Ard Fheis season is in full swing, with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over the last two weekends and the Greens are...
World of Politics with Harry McGee When the next general election takes place early next year (if the Government lasts that long) it will be almost...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The tale of the two Simons is like Lannigan’s Ball; one stepped out and one stepped in again. The news on...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Early last week I was just back from the US having trailed Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for a week in Boston and...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I was in the US for all of last week reporting on the visit of the Taoiseach to Boston and Washington DC; my third...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Were you surprised at the result? I can tell you I wasn’t. Didn’t I predict it last week? I told you more than...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There have been 40 amendments to the Constitution put to the people since the document was published in 1937 –...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Who would take on the job of RTÉ chair after the debacle of the past week? The national broadcaster seems to be...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It’s been a tough week for the world of media and politics – and particularly for those of us on the politics...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Never has politics seemed so fragmented in Ireland with now four identifiable blocs in Irish politics – Sinn...
World of Politics with Harry McGee A wet Monday night in Mullingar, early February; probably not the most inviting of sentences I’m ever going to...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The legendary political correspondent with The Irish Independent, Chris Glennon, was sometimes tackled about...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I was giving career advice to students in a secondary school recently. The first thing that surprised me was the...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I’m terrible at predictions. It’s taken me a career to admit it to myself. Trying to predict accurately how...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Ballinrobe, Rosscahill, Fermoy, Lismore, Leitrim village, Ardee, Carlingford, Ringsend, Rosslare, Rooskey. The...
World of Politics with Harry McGee As commentators like myself have found to our cost in the past, secondary elections are not always good...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The bombing of Gaza continued relentlessly over the Christmas period as the population was forced to flee into...
World of Politics with Harry McGee We have almost forgotten that this was the first time we ever had a Government where the top job was shared. Dick...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I have been to two COP conferences, one in Copenhagen in 2009, the other in Paris in 2015. The first was COP 15,...
World of Politics with Harry McGee No confidence motions are part and parcel of parliamentary politics. There are at least a handful each year and...