World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com I’m over 5,000 kilometres away this week, in the US with a television crew to visit the White...
World of Politics with Harry McGee People around politics get very excitable when a major crisis erupts. The media and politicians work on very short cycles;...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com A sense of low-level crisis is hanging over the Dáil like a Cumulus cloud. Maybe it’s the after-effects...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com One of my vivid memories of the 1980s is an IDA advert trying to entice foreign multinational companies...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com One perspective is that politics and politicians are undervalued. Another is that politics and politicians are treated contemptuously...
Political parties must spend their time these days trying to second-guess what the other parties might like. Sinn Féin’s Private Members Bill on rent certainty (linking increases...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com Hibexit. Eirexit. Irxit. Celtexit. Gaelexit. It just doesn’t roll so easily off the tongue as Brexit. But at...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com For the third week in a row, we have seen the Government lose, or back-pedal, on a vote...
