World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com The big event in Irish politics this week will be happening about 200 metres from the Dáil chamber....
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com Five years ago, in 2011, Fianna Fáil held its first post-electoral think-in in Tallaght in Dublin – and...
World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com It sounds utterly bizarre, but the Government has this week ended up with a windfall of billions of...
World of Politics with Harry McGee There are a couple of default positions adopted by political types when they are under the cosh – a bad...
Political World with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com I started working as a political specialist around this time 13 years ago when I became the political editor...
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 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...