World of Politics with Harry McGee

I’ve been writing about politics full-time for 22 years now and even though there’s a certain ‘rinse and repeat’ aspect to each Dáil term, you’re still getting stopped in your tracks by what we euphemistically call ‘surprise developments’.

I should have seen the one coming last week. The Regional Independent Group had made a brazen move. In my days of covering hurling and football matches for the Connacht, it would have been described as an “opportunist goal”.

Michael Lowry announced that the four members not taking........

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