Justine McCarthy

The weaponising of children certainly did not start last weekend, but it is reaching new lows

Unconscious bias must be checked when words such as ‘unvetted’ drip from our mouths with scorn

Men with wallets as big as their egos have always sought news organs as conduits for their world view

A 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 lead

In this wrapanomics culture, greed is the enemy of solidarity. The first thing the Government has to do is tackle rip-off culture

Leo Varadkar claims the public doesn’t care about Robert Watt and his controversies, which is most convenient for the upper echelon of the Civil Service

The code was 'don’t mention the war', whether cultural wars or American wars, and just surrender to the heart-warming nostalgia of it all

An inquiry dedicated primarily to one social class and exclusively to one religious denomination will be undermined before it even begins

Former taoiseach says lawyers advised him challenge would have halted inquiry into personal finances but he wanted to defend himself ‘politically rather than legally’

Former taoiseach and leader of the Fianna Fáil party talks about his parents, the Belfast Agreement, the planning tribunal and his plans for the future

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 institution

It is high time Ireland faced up to the fact that misogyny and abuse are the realities of life for many women, right here, right now

Rugby suffers from reverse class snobbery, with more than a modicum of justification, but it can also transcend historic barriers

Gary Lineker’s spat with the BBC highlights the insidious relationship between the platform and news organisations

Justine McCarthy: There are too many examples of this cause-and-effect pattern of political diversion