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
Justine McCarthy: Our false sense of security will prove to be our ruinationCapitalism is inherently bad for the environment and must be challenged if we are to have any chance of saving our planetFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: DUP is holding Stormont to ransom for a demand most people in NI do not wantReferendum should be put to people of NI: do you want Stormont’s mandatory coalition to continue?Fri Nov 04 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Seriously Shane Ross, is Mary Lou McDonald’s house really ‘a mansion’?Sinn Féin leader’s husband has threatened to sue over claims made by Ross in 'Mansion in Cabra' chapter in biographyFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Why do men allow themselves to be belittled as weak-willed sex maniacs?Girls are marked from birth because they are delivered into this world inside a package commonly known as a bodyFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: How Creeslough’s priest reminded us of the church’s still-vital roleIn the face of appalling suffering, secularism steps aside and we turn toward a humble, loving church for comfortFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Politicians on both sides of the Border have lost control of Ireland’s destinyPolitical class has gagged unity conversation for too longFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Politicians do nothing as banks and utilities treat customers with contempt The budget was nothing but short-term fixes for a problem successive governments have failed to address – the disempowerment of shoppersFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: Time for Michael D Higgins to address the OireachtasIreland’s axis has shifted and the President should articulate our ideals and values to help us plot the country’s futureFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Justine McCarthy: The young emigrate yet the golden circle endures Siteserv report is just the latest iteration of a them-and-us culture in which the ordinary taxpayer must forever stump upFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
