Councillors likely to stick to party lines on nominations

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Still awaiting the lineup for the start of the big race

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Shock withdrawal throws cat among the pigeons

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22.08.2025 10

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Quiet time offers chance to reflect on decade of change

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15.08.2025 10

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Horror of Gaza plumbs new depths as world stand idly by

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08.08.2025 8

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Political spin can’t disguise bad smell from Trump deal

World of Politics with Harry McGee Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” The phrase was first used in the cartoon TV series, The Simpsons, by Willie,...

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Political consensus makes for a dearth of real impetus

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25.07.2025 10

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Presidential race starts to heat up at long last

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18.07.2025 9

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Passionate lobbyists make a strong case for GLUAS

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11.07.2025 8

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Minister puts his house on streamlining planning route

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04.07.2025 20

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Nuclear threat turns Trump into a global peacemaker

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27.06.2025 10

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Getting a grip on the rapidly changing media landscape

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20.06.2025 20

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Soaring energy demand conflicts with our climate change targets

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13.06.2025 20

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The Irish economy is now facing turbulence. Are we prepared for the coming storm?

08.06.2025 20

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Other EU states are slowly taking Ireland’s line on Gaza

World of Politics with Harry McGee For some weeks now, we have seen disturbing images of malnourished skeletal infants, with visible ribs and skin...

06.06.2025 10

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Social activists fighting to keep the Irish flame alive

The first time I remember meeting Donncha Ó hÉallaithe was when I was in my early twenties. I was driving my mother’s car out to Indreabhán and...

30.05.2025 20

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Having your own home moves further out of reach

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23.05.2025 8

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Traffic solutions all seem to be caught in a logjam

World of Politics with Harry McGee I was out in North Connemara last weekend for a walk commemorating a good friend who had died. It was a lovely...

16.05.2025 10

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Global Irish Summit proves that not all politics is local

World of Politics with Harry McGee A remarkable feature about Irish politics — and I suppose it applies to politics anywhere — is that it mixes...

09.05.2025 10

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Housing crisis continues to grow deeper and deeper

World of Politics with Harry McGee I remember vividly the moment when we realised that the crisis facing Ireland was no longer an economic one but...

02.05.2025 10

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Papacy and politics are impossible to separate

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25.04.2025 30

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It’s enough that it just feels like the real deal

World of Politics with Harry McGee Last week, the HSE announced its programme for capital projects around the country. These are new hospital...

18.04.2025 9

Harry Mcgee

Little art in Trump’s deal as we await the impact

World of Politics with Harry McGee We have been learning a lot of new phrases in the past few months since Donald Trump came into power in January: a...

11.04.2025 10

Harry Mcgee

Only people exercised by Dáil row are the politicians

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04.04.2025 9

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Six of the biggest risks currently facing Ireland

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28.03.2025 6

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Presidential race is still wide open with only months to go

World of Politics with Harry McGee Collaboration between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael isn’t something that was invented after the 2020 election;...

21.03.2025 20

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Stopcock is shut off on return of water charges

World of Politics with Harry McGee That was a blast from the past that we did not see coming. On Tuesday, the Irish Independent reported that new...

14.03.2025 10

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Trump the agitator may trigger new world order

World of Politics with Harry McGee Sounding off about Donald Trump in the Tribune leaves you open to the risk of putting yourself in the position of...

07.03.2025 10

Harry Mcgee

Our political landscape has changed irrevocably

World of Politics with Harry McGee Dick Walsh was a celebrated political journalist who worked for the Irish Times. He wrote a book about Fianna...

28.02.2025 10

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When will the real Donald Trump be clear to us all?

World of Politics with Harry McGee There was a game show on TV in the 1970s with a novel concept for the time. Three people would come on and all...

21.02.2025 10

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Hopefuls set out on their long journey to the Áras

World of Politics with Harry McGee There have been some very prospective candidates for the Presidency over the years – but few were as eccentric...

14.02.2025 10

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Opening chaos shows this Dáil is in for a bumpy ride

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...

31.01.2025 10

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Trump can have bigger impact on Ireland than Government

World of Politics with Harry McGee And so it came to pass. The great moment when the man so often denigrated, so often overlooked, so often cast into...

24.01.2025 10

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Galway conquers junior seats at the Cabinet table

World of Politics with Harry McGee The first Minister I ever recall meeting was Tom O’Donnell, a Limerick TD, who was Minister for the Gaeltacht....

17.01.2025 10

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Political shoegazing at the start of a busy year ahead

World of Politics with Harry McGee I have a friend whose family business was shoes. He was so steeped in the tradition that he once told me that his...

10.01.2025 10

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State of the parties going into new political season

World of Politics with Harry McGee The first moment you see a Government fail is the moment it is formed; that might seem very pessimistic but to...

03.01.2025 4

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Eight political lessons and moments from the last year

World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in the day, Bertie Ahern led Fianna Fáil to three general election victories – yet the party’s...

25.12.2024 8

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Drilling deep down through Galway’s voting patterns

World of Politics with Harry McGee Nobody is ever going to give you a definite and scientific analysis of exactly how many transfers will go from...

20.12.2024 4

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The real battles only begin after the votes are counted

World of Politics with Harry McGee The late John Cunningham, former editor of the Connacht Tribune, probably taught me more than anyone else about...

13.12.2024 6

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Six takeaways from the General Election

World of Politics with Harry McGee In the 2020 election Fianna Fáil got 22.2 per cent of the vote and Fine Gael got 20.9 per cent. Four years...

05.12.2024 20

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The people will have spoken but what will they have said?

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28.11.2024 30

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A week to go and election campaign has yet to ignite

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21.11.2024 4

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Drilling down to determine how the west will be won

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14.11.2024 4

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Transfers will again be the key factor in Galway West

World of Politics with Harry McGee Back in 2002, the Progressive Democrats came up with a strategy to succeed Bobby Molloy. Instead of running one...

07.11.2024 10

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Plenty of permutations in expanded Galway East

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31.10.2024 4

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Sinn Féin moves from crisis to crisis to General Election

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24.10.2024 20

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Sinn Féin’s implosion casts real doubts over leadership

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17.10.2024 3

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Political surprises that come back to haunt at polling time

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10.10.2024 8

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Election sets the seal on November election

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