Justine McCarthy columns
It may not be pragmatic to officially disinvite Trump but he might not come if a mass of the Irish public signed a petition saying: 'We don’t want you in our country'
They were daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, women with histories and plans for the lives they had yet to live
Have a fanfare sound as you unfurl some paper decorated with squiggles. Tell him it is an invitation written in ancient Ogham from the Little People inviting him to visit the land of the leprechauns
A State that wastes the guts of €7m on an unusable computer system is rubbing salt in the wounds of citizens who have delayed starting families because of the housing crisis
Merrion Street’s promised “charm offensive” will have as much traction as water on a duck’s back in the madness of the court of King Trump
When the institutions of the land imply women are inferior, it’s hard not to doubt yourself
Throughout the general election campaign, voters were assured that a future Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael government would support the existing Bill. Yet soon after Christmas, the mood music changed
The worship of mammon and mammon-makers has brought us to the point where a rich felon purports to rule the world and carve it up to his liking
European leaders are bracing themselves as Trump’s return to the White House has plunged the Continent into a precarious era. Evidently, the memo has failed to reach Dáil Éireann
How can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?
Michael D Higgins, a funny-sounding little poet heaving with lofty thoughts, was exactly what the doctor ordered for Ireland in 2011
I’m taking the Julius Caesar approach to resolutions: here are the ways I’d like the rest of you to adopt better habits
Flinging the anti-Semitism slur around is an injustice to the many Israeli citizens who decry their government’s protracted killing spree in Gaza and the illegal settlements in the West Bank
If 14 years’ tribunal work by a High Court judge can be so readily air-brushed by successive governments, what’s the point of bothering?
In all the Mercs-and-perks talk about who will get which Cabinet portfolios, there has been scant appetite to face down the warmongers in Jerusalem and Washington
It’s just 14 years since Fianna Fáil and Martin were being written off completely, and four since his leadership was being publicly challenged
In the space of a single week, two sports stars were before the Irish courts having behaved despicably
By embracing abortion in the 1970s, feminism accepted that pregnancy is damaging to women’s lives, rather than something fundamental to human experience
The shameful and eternal truth about the Irish left is that as long as it stands apart, it falls apart
US election shows voters still demand that a woman candidate must be without fault
The prevailing credo is that the voter is always right, even when the voter is egregiously misguided
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
The blizzard of scandals since the Dáil returned from summer holidays is Mary Lou McDonald’s GUBU moment
Why is the International Criminal Court taking nearly five months to respond to the request for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant when it took just three weeks to grant one for Putin?
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
Even the most interfering nanny state cannot guarantee that a baby boost is actually spent on the child
Ireland's age of innocence as a global love object is over
The €13bn lying in an escrow fund could help give those hit by the homelessness crisis a way back into society
Sometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrong
The Gulf Stream that once bathed our shores in mildness has turned into a giant sunblock that could be bottled and sold
Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald Trump
Alliance of green and orange sectarian supremacists in Belfast shows fascism is on the march and is leveraging the new global weapon of mass destruction: gullibility
The Kilkenny woman changed how the legal system deals with sexual offences
Where once the priest was a respected public figure in a crisis, self-appointed supremacists now fill the role
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