Despite a history of public relations gaffes, Hogan’s muscular political skills seem to endear him to the party chief, with Simon Harris the fourth to entrust him with a key role
What might a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael merger look like? Exactly like Phil Hogan – big, strategic and born to survive. If ever a person embodied the Republic’s two predominant parties, it’s Big Phil from Tullaroan.
Last May, when on the brink of becoming Fine Gael leader and by extension Taoiseach, Harris confirmed that Hogan had been advising him privately before Varadkar’s sudden resignation. The seamless succession indicated an impressive level of preparedness by Harris’s camp for when the day would come. “Phil is a friend of mine; he’s a colleague of mine,” Harris told reporters.
His first government post 30 years ago as junior finance minister in John Bruton’s rainbow coalition proved an inauspicious debut, lasting less than two months. He hosted the independent Tipperary TD along with a farm-waste business group seeking a regulation change, at a meeting in his Custom House office
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