Harry McGee

{{Short description|Irish journalist}}

{{for multi|the American football player|Harry McGee (American football)|the American cookery and science writer|Harold McGee}}

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| birth_place = Salthill, County Galway, Ireland

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| alma_mater = University College Galway
BA (1987)
HDip (1989)
LLB (1993)
Barrister-at-Law (1995)

| occupation = Political journalist

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| spouse = Fiona Breslin

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| credits = Young Journalist of the Year
Irish Examiner Political editor
The Irish Times Political correspondent

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Harry McGee is the political correspondent with The Irish Times. He has previously worked for several publications, including being political editor of the Irish Examiner,{{Cite news |last=Eoghan |first=Harris |author-link=Eoghan Harris |date=2007-05-27 |title=Fairy-tale media's ugly duckling became Bertie the Black Swan |work=Sunday Independent |url=http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/fairytale-medias-ugly-duckling-became-bertie-the-black-swan-685245.html |access-date=2009-12-23}}{{Cite web |last=Paul Cunningham |date=2007-11-30 |title=A Green Budget |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1130/budgetpreview.html |access-date=2009-12-23 |publisher=RTÉ}} 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 has appeared as a commentator on RTÉ Radio 1, Newstalk and TV3.

McGee is originally from Salthill, County Galway. His mother, Eithne Conway-McGee, was a doctor, and was President of the Irish College of General Practitioners for a time.{{Cite web |date=August 2018 |title=Eithne Conway-McGee obituary: Doctor who cared for Galway's most marginal people |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/eithne-conway-mcgee-obituary-doctor-who-cared-for-galway-s-most-marginal-people-1.3613978 |website=Irishtimes.com}} He studied at Coláiste Iognáid{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/irish-times-appointment-1.784472|title=Irish Times appointment|newspaper=The Irish Times }}, retrieved 8 February 2016 and at University College Galway, earning a BA (1987), HDip (1989) and LLB (1993).{{Cite web |date=19 March 2014 |title=Irish Times Journalist Harry McGee Appointed to NUI Galway Governing Authority; Údarás na hOllscoile |url=http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2014/march2014/irish-times-journalist-harry-mcgee-appointed-to-nui-galway-governing-authority-udaras-na-hollscoile-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530203009/http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2014/march2014/irish-times-journalist-harry-mcgee-appointed-to-nui-galway-governing-authority-udaras-na-hollscoile-1.html |archive-date=30 May 2015}} He has won the award for Young Journalist of the Year. 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.{{Cite news |date=2009-12-05 |title='Irish Times' appointment |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1205/1224260144929.html |access-date=2009-12-23}}

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.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

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.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}