Justine McCarthy

The argument that the role of president is devoid of real power is an odd perspective to cling to after 35 consecutive years of radical presidencies

If you’re not bamboozled by the rising cost of insurance as claims fall, you must be an actuary

Some of his accusers died before they got a chance to readjust their picture of Gibney from an all-powerful figure to a 77-year-old man facing extradition

Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare

Nurses who contracted long Covid remain trapped in a post-pandemic freeze frame, battling extreme fatigue, brain fog, weakened immunity, headaches and pain

In Ireland, we call it “mé féinism” - but now it’s everywhere. Could people power save us?

Ireland has shown due respect to Daniel O’Connell. But where is the respect for his wife?

Mary Robinson and Jimmy Carter are exceptions. The political system cultivates the ideology that money is the measure of the man

The BBC report carries a warning: 'Distressing content'. What luxury it is to be able to look away

Single? You'll pay more on holiday, in the supermarket and for your tax bill

Sixteen years after landing the licence, O’Brien was found by a State inquiry to have made personal payments and loan facilities worth over €1 million to Michael Lowry

The men-only club will be out in force. Even Francis ‘the reformer’ could not assail that bastion

Had AI been asked to choose the ideal candidate for the Park, the Bull McCabe would have stood a better chance than an ex-Hot Press columnist with hippy ideas and bloated vowels

We Irish have a duty of care to our European neighbours too. They fought for us over Brexit and we have more values in common with them than with a country where the death penalty persists

Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra

Lowry’s One Foot in the Gravy Train episode has surely dragged the scales from the eyes of voters who have re-elected him in the 14 years since the Moriarty Tribunal

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?