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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 seats...
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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...
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...
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 was...
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. The...
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 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,...
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