Harry McGee

Harry McGee is the political correspondent with The Irish Times. as well as jobs with the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Press, the Connacht Tribune newspapers, public service broadcaster RTÉ and has also edited Magill. He studied at Coláiste Iognáid and at University College Galway, earning a BA, HDip (1989) and LLB (1993). He has won the award for Young Journalist of the Year.

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 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.