Two wrongs do not make a right, they make a vortex of horrorOf the many sides in this war, the worst are the so-called friends who have the power to do something but choose to kindle revengeFri Oct 13 2023 - 06:21
Justine McCarthy: Ireland's richest are seldom mentioned when it comes time to balance the booksThe domicile levy was meant to be a net to catch the super-wealthy, but hasn’t quite workedFri Oct 06 2023 - 06:00
Ireland has museums for dinosaurs, country life and rugby. It’s time we had one for womenDisrespect underpins much of the apathy about and antipathy towards women in our society.Fri Sept 29 2023 - 06:30
Spinal surgeries scandal has the ring of such grotesquerie as to stop a country in its tracksThe series of appalling events in Temple Street must be fully revealed to the publicFri Sept 22 2023 - 06:30
Reverse snobbery about rugby is every bit as nauseating as plain old snobberyRugby World Cup: Everybody knows rugby is an elitist sport in Ireland. But you don’t achieve an egalitarian society by throwing stones at athletes who are representing your countryFri Sept 15 2023 - 06:00
Vera Pauw’s unforgivable sin was to stand up for herselfIf obstreperousness in a man can be an aphrodisiac, in a woman it is a crime punishable by firing squadFri Sept 08 2023 - 06:30
Amid Ireland’s summer of tragedy, we look to those who don’t have the luxury of allowing words to fail themJustine McCarthy: First-responders are the true matrix of Irish communitiesFri Sept 01 2023 - 06:30
Justine McCarthy: Enough of the meaningless hand-wringing over abuse by Christian BrothersAre councillors compassionate enough to rescind Edmund Garvey’s freedom of Drogheda as a powerful symbol of support for victims of abuse?Fri Aug 25 2023 - 06:30
Justine McCarthy: It’s time for RTÉ to pull the plug on the Rose of TraleeMaking Thomas co-host is a desperate effort to extend the longevity of the antediluvian eventThu Aug 17 2023 - 12:59
Justine McCarthy: Staggering hypocrisy of the Christian Brothers, or Cheapskate BulliesCongregation ought to be renamed the Cheapskate Bullies for its persistent torment of abuse survivors via the legal systemFri Aug 11 2023 - 06:00
Justine McCarthy: We should thank Charles Haughey for Ireland’s Booker Prize success To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the princeFri Aug 04 2023 - 06:30
Justine McCarthy: Reforming our garbled VAT system would be a good start in the fight against climate changeGo to a garden centre and you will pay the same 13.5 per cent tax for a packet of environment-enhancing wildflower seeds as for a bag of peat compost, which strips bogs of their sequestered carbonFri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Ryan Tubridy should keep his job, but not his roleBroadcaster known for cheery banter but we have learned there are more layers to him than a liking for mom and apple pieFri Jul 14 2023 - 06:11
Justine McCarthy: It’s a pity politicians so furious about RTÉ spending weren’t bothered to stir themselves before thisRTÉ payments crisis: Revelations of a them-and-us culture at the top in RTÉ are not newFri Jul 07 2023 - 06:15
Justine McCarthy: Tubridy is paying a high price for not exposing RTÉ's deceitFolly of judging somebody’s worth by size of their remuneration is lesson Ireland has repeatedly been taught, yet never seems to learnFri Jun 30 2023 - 06:00
Justine McCarthy: Judge Deirdre Murphy’s warning on our broken legal system must not be ignoredMurphy’s assertion about legal fees has an ear-splitting ring of plausibility, and a disgusting stench of scandalFri Jun 23 2023 - 06:30
Justine McCarthy: Sinn Féin has a point. Nobody is entitled to veto anyone else’s storyRemembering nation’s past must be collective endeavour, it is more urgent than rearranging administrative infrastructureFri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Young people are the new frontier in the hatred warsThe weaponising of children certainly did not start last weekend, but it is reaching new lowsFri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: What part of branding refugees as potential rapists is not racist?Unconscious bias must be checked when words such as ‘unvetted’ drip from our mouths with scornFri May 26 2023 - 06:15
Justine McCarthy: The idea of news organisations with a political agenda is nothing newMen with wallets as big as their egos have always sought news organs as conduits for their world viewFri May 19 2023 - 06:00
Justine McCarthy: At last, women are getting their revenge on Donald TrumpA handful of strong women are proving his biggest obstacle to getting back into the White House. Let’s hope the women who voted for him follow their leadFri May 12 2023 - 05:15
Justine McCarthy: The €15.90 chicken wrap that proves Michael D Higgins has a pointIn this wrapanomics culture, greed is the enemy of solidarity. The first thing the Government has to do is tackle rip-off cultureFri May 05 2023 - 05:00
Robert Watt affair shows an issue can be very much in public interest even when public aren’t interestedLeo Varadkar claims the public doesn’t care about Robert Watt and his controversies, which is most convenient for the upper echelon of the Civil ServiceFri Apr 28 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: British media was right - Joe Biden’s Ireland belongs to Dark AgesThe code was 'don’t mention the war', whether cultural wars or American wars, and just surrender to the heart-warming nostalgia of it allFri Apr 21 2023 - 15:01
What is the difference between a sexual assault on a Protestant school boy and a Catholic school boy? An inquiry dedicated primarily to one social class and exclusively to one religious denomination will be undermined before it even beginsFri Apr 14 2023 - 05:00
Bertie Ahern says he should have taken constitutional challenge against planning tribunalFormer taoiseach says lawyers advised him challenge would have halted inquiry into personal finances but he wanted to defend himself ‘politically rather than legally’Mon Apr 10 2023 - 06:00
Bertie Ahern interview: I see all this stuff now about TDs with 20 houses - I’m still with me one houseFormer taoiseach and leader of the Fianna Fáil party talks about his parents, the Belfast Agreement, the planning tribunal and his plans for the futureMon Apr 10 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: What makes a Greek scholar qualified to choose a senator?Justine McCarthy: It’s sickening to watch TDs who lost their seats in the Dáil swanning into the Seanad for a five-year breather. Their treatment of it as a halfway house debases the institutionFri Apr 07 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: We still have a long way to go before Ireland is safe for womenIt is high time Ireland faced up to the fact that misogyny and abuse are the realities of life for many women, right here, right nowFri Mar 31 2023 - 05:02
Justine McCarthy: We should not scoff at the idea of Johnny Sexton as a national role modelRugby suffers from reverse class snobbery, with more than a modicum of justification, but it can also transcend historic barriersFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Can’t live with Twitter? Then live without itGary Lineker’s spat with the BBC highlights the insidious relationship between the platform and news organisationsFri Mar 17 2023 - 05:00
Welcome to Ireland, where trivial things are magnified and important things are ignoredJustine McCarthy: There are too many examples of this cause-and-effect pattern of political diversionFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Until GSK compensates mother-and-baby-home children, don’t buy its medicinesDrug giant rang up worldwide sales of more than £29 billion last year. Its refusal to contribute a cent to State’s redress scheme is inexcusableFri Mar 03 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Many hotels and restaurants are thriving at our expenseDecision to keep VAT rate for hospitality sector at 9% shows handouts go not to those in most needFri Feb 24 2023 - 05:00
Ireland’s young people are leaving as they are no longer proud to call this country homeOfficial Ireland preaches tolerance and multiculturalism while staying a monoculture and ensuring asylum seekers are sent only to our poorest neighbourhoodsFri Feb 17 2023 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: The Attorney General would say that, wouldn’t he? Time and again this State has used public money to intimidate and crush the vulnerable in courtFri Feb 10 2023 - 05:00
Government needs to acknowledge its role in creating anti-migrant tinderboxState must assuage the fears and resentments of those who are resisting the arrival of migrants, and offer help to communities that are shouldering the burdenFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Enoch Burke has ridden roughshod over the rights of students he was employed to teachJustine McCarthy: To the student in question, this must seem a callous brand of Christianity, one that even Jesus Christ might want to dissociate himself fromThu Jan 26 2023 - 13:20
The old Jurys hotel in Dublin 4 would be ideal for housing refugees - instead it stands idleLess privileged communities are bearing the brunt of the refugee burden, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by far-right agitatorsFri Jan 20 2023 - 01:00
Leo Varadkar, Johnny Sexton and Michael D ... here are your new year resolutions President Higgins should address the Oireachtas, and Varadkar should stop downplaying the housing crisisFri Dec 30 2022 - 00:01
Micheál Martin: ‘I suspect far right are seeking to plant their ideas ... and penetrate groups in our parliament’FF leader closes door on eventful stint as Taoiseach amid war in Europe, housing and cost-of-living crisisSat Dec 24 2022 - 07:00
Martin aims to stay at helm of Fianna Fáil and return to taoiseach’s officeTánaiste says future coalition between his party and Sinn Féin a ‘possibility’Sat Dec 24 2022 - 05:00
Bribery scandal in European Parliament is grist to the mill of EU’s detractorsIt is imperative that the European Union’s institutional architecture be rigorously reinforced against corruptionFri Dec 23 2022 - 00:00
Seán Rooney funeral: Strangled with grief, a family struggles to say goodbye to son, fiance and hero soldierDanny Boy and The Sally Gardens floated in the air at Pte Rooney’s Dundalk farewellThu Dec 22 2022 - 13:11
Do we really want to give the diaspora a vote on the President?The measure could create constitutional blowholes all over the landscape of Ireland’s putative reunificationFri Dec 16 2022 - 00:01
Ex-Army lieutenant Dónal de Róiste: ‘I can walk with my head high’More than 50 years after he was forced out of the Army on spurious grounds, the former lieutenant has finally seen his name clearedFri Dec 09 2022 - 10:10
Justine McCarthy: Wallace’s sympathy for Iranian regime strips bare his faux radicalismVictim blaming is the lowest form of defence, yet the MEP has chosen to blame protesting women and girls rather than the vile police state that beats and kills themFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: CervicalCheck scandal did not die with Vicky PhelanWho, what, where and when of this tragedy has been revealed. But no attempt has been made to answer this pressing question: why did it happen?Fri Dec 02 2022 - 00:01
Justine McCarthy: Housing policy incompetence has opened door to far-rightPeople feel hard done by when their house is swamped with the stuck-at-home generationFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Vicky Phelan was the first among equals in facing down power Campaigner was in a vanguard of women fighting the system along with Louise O’Keeffe and Marie FlemingFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00