Lee John

John Lee is the political editor of the Mail on Sunday, the newspaper he has represented in Leinster House for over a decade. A national news journalist for twenty years, he was educated at Belvedere College, SJ, University College Dublin (MA in History) and Dublin City University (MA in Journalism). He has also worked at The Sunday Times and Independent News & Media, and regularly contributes to national radio and television programmes. He lives in Portmarnock, Co. Dublin.

Hell at the Gates: The Inside Story of Ireland's Financial Downfall On 28 November 2010, the Irish government infamously agreed to a bailout from the Troika to save Ireland’s failing economy. This decision had huge and long-lasting social implications for Ireland and her people, and led to the annihilation of Fianna Fáil and its allies in the 2011 general election. In 'Hell at the Gates', Brian Cowen, the late Brian Lenihan, Eamon Ryan, Micheál Martin, Mary Harney and many others, recount for the first time in their own words the inside story behind the actions of the most hated government in living memory. The result is a deeply honest, intensely personal and revelation-strewn account of their experiences in the white heat of an economic meltdown. It reveals the extent to which Cowen and Lenihan’s relationship disintegrated, how members of the government were physically attacked by the public and also gives the definitive account by Micheál Martin himself of why he chose in early 2011 to move against his embattled leader. As Mary O’Rourke said of those days, ‘There was drama, tragedy, pathos, comedy, farce, love and death. It was like a Shakespearean drama.’ John Lee and Daniel McConnell have interviewed the people who were at the coalface of this drama, to produce a gripping account of those fateful days in and around Leinster House. €2.99

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