Kevin Rafter is a writer and broadcaster.

He is currently Political Editor of the Sunday Tribune newspaper in Dublin. He has previously worked as a political reporter with the Irish Times, political correspondent with the Sunday Times and Editor of Magill magazine. He has also presented radio news programmes with RTÉ including This Week and worked as a correspondent with the Prime Time television programme. Sunday Tribune is an Irish Sunday newspaper humourously referred to as The Turbine, especially in the magazine The Phoenix. ... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ... For the place in Adelaide, South Australia, see Magill, South Australia. ...

He has a postgraduate degree in economics from Trinity College Dublin and in politics from University College Dublin. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for British and Irish Studies in 2002. Recent publications include Martin Mansergh: A Biography (New Island, 2002) and Sinn Féin: 1905-2005 In the Shadow of Gunmen (Gill and Macmillan, 2005).^[1] Some of his articles can be found at his website [1] Martin Mansergh (born 1946) is a historian and has been a Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) in the Republic of Ireland since May, 2007. ...