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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...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There are moments when you are looking at something happening before your very eyes and thinking, ‘this can’t...
World of Politics with Harry McGee For years I have been saying that two of the three constituencies in the European elections make no sense. If you...
World of Politics with Harry McGee It had been a while since I had covered Sinn Féin Ard Fheiseanna before my drive down to Athlone early on...
World of Politics with Harry McGee THE number of dead in Gaza has crept to 10,000 this week. Of those, over 4,000 are children. The Israelis have...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Trick or Treat” – that phrase has always had a chilling resonance for me. On a more innocent level, it’s now...
World of Politics with Harry McGee A little over ten years ago, in April 2013, the Green Party held its national convention in Galway. It did not...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The President is above politics. Well that’s a phrase that we can throw into the bin and put out for the next...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The scale of what happened in Israel and Gaza over the past five days has been incredible with a death toll since...
World of Politics with Harry McGee One of the findings from last week’s opinion poll in the Irish Times that surprised me was in relation to the...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Charlie Flanagan announced this week that he’s stepping down from politics – and if Fine Gael keeps on...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Every September around this time, I go out to the shed and rummage around until I find a pair of wellington boots....
World of Politics with Harry McGee The think-in is a relatively new phenomenon in the political landscape. If memory serves me correctly, they...
World of Politics with Harry McGee Richard Bruton was not the first victim of the constituency changes. His decision not to contest the election had...