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Harry McGee

Harry McGee

Political Correspondent

Harry McGee is political correspondent with The Irish Times, which he joined in 2008. He previously worked with the Irish Examiner, Sunday Tribune, RTE, Magill (where he was editor) and The Connacht Tribune. He is a frequent contributor on politics to current affairs and news programmes and has been blogging on politics since 2006. From an Irish-speaking household in Galway, he studied languages and law in NUIG, and also is a barrister. His interests outside politics are family, mountaineering, running, GAA and the Irish language.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Shatter to face breath test incident questions

Minister for Justice confirms he failed to complete Garda breathalyser test

Professor Dermot Walsh Professor of Law, University of Limerick
Disclosure of minor traffic occurrence involving Wallace highly improper, says leading academic

‘It is playing politics with policing and the enforcement of the law,’ says Prof Dermot Walsh of University of Limerick

Alan Shatter: will be pressed to give full details of breath test incident. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Shatter’s disclosure about Wallace rebounds on Minister with a vengeance

Analysis: The political repercussions are not position-threatening but will be a severe embarrassment to Shatter

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: under pressure over high-level garda briefing
Opposition says questions remain about information on Wallace ‘ticking-off’

Academic says sharing of such information ‘not within spirit of the law’

Questions remain over how minor traffic incident formed part of briefing to Shatter

No details of how unrecorded ‘ticking-off’ of Wallace percolated to the top levels of Garda

The Cabinet yesterday discussed the troubled financial situation at the State transport company after Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar presented the report. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
CIE deficit would be €45m without assets sale and State help

Coras Iompar Éireann would have incurred a deficit of €45 million last year if it had not received emergency assistance from Gove(...)

Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. “Most came to the realisation that the the political row surrounding Shatter was petering out.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Apology in a thicket of conditionality gets Shatter off the hook

Analysis: Minister for Justice’s case helped by lack of Government sympathy for Mick Wallace

Deputy Mick Wallace at Leinster House yesterday. He said Mr Shatter had “tried to ridicule us, skew the debate, misrepresent us and show a level of disrespect to us as elected representatives.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Shatter’s qualified apology seen as acceptance he might have overstepped mark

No pressure on Minister from Labour Coalition partners to resign over remarks about Wallace

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at at Citizenship Ceremony in Dublin yesterday. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times
The questions surrounding Shatter’s use of confidential Garda information

Shatter faces more criticism over using information given in Garda briefing but he doesn’t do apologies or climb-downs

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