Eoghan Harris
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Eoghan Harris is an Irish newspaper columnist who contributes to the Sunday Independent newspaper. Harris was educated at University College, Cork and later worked at RTÉ, the Irish television broadcaster.
Harris was a friend of leading Official Sinn Féin members Eamonn Smullen and Cathal Goulding. According to an article in Magill magazine (November 1997) Harris formed a branch of Sinn Féin the Workers Party (which party had originally been known as Official Sinn Féin). People working in RTÉ could join this branch known as the 'Ned Stapleton Cumann'. In 1989 Harris ended his involvement with the party after a policy disagreement [citation needed]. He became friendly with Fine Gael leader John Bruton because of their shared opposition to the Provisional IRA.
Harris worked as a consultant to Mary Robinson on the 1990 Irish presidential election campaign. In 1997 Harris denounced Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Mary McAleese, calling her a "tribal time bomb" and writing "if she wins not on a technicality but because so many people gave her their number one, then I am living in a country I no longer understand". McAleese won a landslide victory.
Harris strongly supported the invasion of Iraq. In May 2003 he wrote "already as I predicted in the lead up to the war, the neoconservative hawks have done much better than the liberals in getting down to the dynamics of opening up the Gulf to democracy. Already, and this I predicted too, there is substantial hope for an Israeli Palestinian settlement, now that Saddam no longer scowls at Israel".
He is separated from his wife, Anne Harris, who now lives with Sunday Independent editor, Aengus Fanning. [1]
[edit] References
- Magill - November 1997
- Sunday Independent - May 11 2003
