Stephen Collins is a political columnist with the Irish Times and was previously political editor of the newspaper for over a decade. He was born in Northampton to Irish parents who returned home when he was a child. Educated at Oatlands College, Stillorgan, he went on to UCD where he graduated with an MA in Politics. He startedas a journalist with the Irish Press group and was political correspondent of theSunday Press and later the Sunday Tribune before moving to the Irish Times. He haswritten a number of books about Irish political history, including, The Power Game:Ireland Under Fianna Fail, (2002), Breaking the Mould: How the PDs changedIrish Politics (2006) and Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar(2020). His most recent book is Ireland’s Call: How Brexit Got Done (2024).
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