Columns - Irish Examiner

Harry McGee

Coalition removed from its citizens

THE past 11 days in politics was like the hurricane season. The first big blow came. And then calm set in and, with it, complacency.

Sat, 03 Jun, 2006

FF must wake up to public fatigue

IT was Charlie Haughey who came up with the great little silver bullet that every senior Fianna Fáil leader and minister has loaded into the cylinder since then.

Sat, 20 May, 2006

Acting tough isn’t enough

“SOMEDAY a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

Sat, 13 May, 2006

FG needs ideas as well as image

DAVID CAMERON, the Conservative leader, was interviewed by John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4’s Today a few days ago.

Sat, 06 May, 2006

Let’s look at the nuclear option, but spare us the scientific snobbery

OF all the snobberies, scientific has to be the most infuriating.

Wed, 03 May, 2006

Oil crisis a case not of if, but when

By Harry McGee, Political Editor

Sat, 29 Apr, 2006

Gone in 120 seconds

THIRTEEN days that gripped the nation and put every other political issue on hold and suspension. Nothing else mattered during that time. It dominated the front pages and the main bulletins.

Mon, 10 Apr, 2006

The iron rule that may yet cost FF

THE Fianna Fáil mutiny was as scary as being confronted in a dark alley by a flock of slaughtered sheep.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006