Harry McGee

For the American football player, see Harry McGee (American football). For the American cookery and science writer, see Harold McGee.

Harry McGee
Born
Salthill, County Galway
EducationBA (1987), HDip (1989), LLB (1993), Barrister-at-Law (1995)
Alma materUniversity College Galway
OccupationPolitical journalist
Notable credit(s)Young Journalist of the Year
Irish Examiner Political editor
The Irish Times Political correspondent
SpouseFiona Breslin
ChildrenOne daughter

Harry McGee is the political correspondent with The Irish Times.[1] He has previously worked for several publications, including being political editor of the Irish Examiner,[2][3] as well as jobs with the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Press, the Connacht Tribune newspapers, public service broadcaster RTÉ and has also edited Magill.[1] He has appeared as a commentator on RTÉ Radio 1, Newstalk and TV3.

McGee is originally from Salthill, County Galway.[1] His mother, Eithne Conway-McGee, was a doctor, and was President of the Irish College of General Practitioners for a time.[4] He studied at Coláiste Iognáid[5] and at University College Galway, earning a BA (1987), HDip (1989) and LLB (1993).[6] He has won the award for Young Journalist of the Year.[1] He left his job as the political editor with the Irish Examiner to take up a new job with The Irish Times in January 2008 and was promoted to the post of political correspondent for that publication in December 2009.[1]

McGee wrote, presented and produced the seven-part GUBU podcast series for The Irish Times in 2022. He has also written and presented several TV documentaries for RTÉ and TG4 and wrote the RTÉ Legacy Documentaries on Martin McGuinness and P. J. Mara.

More recently, he wrote the number one best-selling book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach, based on the podcast series.

His main pastimes are the GAA and mountaineering. He played hurling and football with Salthill-Knocknacarra and FitzGibbon Cup hurling with the University of Galway. He is chairperson of Ranelagh Gaels GAA club in South Dublin.

  1. ^ a b c d e "'Irish Times' appointment". The Irish Times. 5 December 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  2. ^ Eoghan, Harris (27 May 2007). "Fairy-tale media's ugly duckling became Bertie the Black Swan". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  3. ^ Paul Cunningham (30 November 2007). "A Green Budget". RTÉ. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  4. ^ "Eithne Conway-McGee obituary: Doctor who cared for Galway's most marginal people". Irishtimes.com. August 2018.
  5. ^ "Irish Times appointment". The Irish Times., retrieved 8 February 2016
  6. ^ "Irish Times Journalist Harry McGee Appointed to NUI Galway Governing Authority; Údarás na hOllscoile". 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015.