Justine McCarthy columns
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
Potential new TDs would need their mental acuity assessed if they were not given pause by hearing about masked protesters outside the Taoiseach’s home
Wisdom, that great compensation for the vanished stamina of youth, seems to have bypassed the US president
Regular reports of disturbing cases show the State has again been failing our most vulnerable children
There should be monuments in all our cities to the women who have helped to civilise this country
Elected representatives are honour-bound to explain their words and actions to their constituents who rely on professional media outlets. The alternative source is the swamp of social media and fake news websites
Imagine anyone calling Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Indira Gandhi ‘the girls’
Opinion polling is not dark force. But as it becomes more complex, its impacts needs to be examined
We voters need to consider our ambivalence about political standards
Amid all the woes of homelessness, exorbitant rents, asylum seekers consigned to tents and climate damage, this was a moment to relish being Irish
Ireland chooses to be an outlier in Europe by not operating a consultant-led helicopter emergency service that would bring life-saving expertise to the scene of an accident
Even when propaganda is shown to be untrue, Israel’s backers make no apology for having blindingly believed it
When trust dies, anger is its natural successor. Only by regaining the people’s trust can Ireland recover
When those who are supposed to be the watchdogs for the public interest become the guard-dogs at the gates of government, a country’s conversation may be guided by the dog that barks the loudest
Government has terminated a special sick pay scheme for the tiny proportion of staff who have developed long Covid and can no longer work
According to the handbook of regressive extremism, social justice organisations are the devil incarnate, their hooves and horns disguised by angels’ wings
If Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is serious about being taoiseach after the next election, she will need the support of what purports to be the left
We have been witnessing genocide by Israel for months in Gaza, while western powers have cheered it on
Government handed No campaigners a shovel to more deeply entrench woman inside the home
Two Irish Times columnists argue the merits and demerits of the proposed changes to the Constitution
Minister for Media summed up the hypocrisy when she asked: ‘What was the alternative? To conceal the facts?’
The world’s wars were started by men and are being continued by men. Maybe only women can stop them
Travelling together to John Bruton’s funeral was easy compared with the tightrope they must walk soon
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
France has devised a type of conscious coupling that has proven to be highly popular
Taoiseach must convey Ireland’s message about Gaza publicly, unambiguously and for international consumption
Now the only suspect is gone with whatever secrets he had. And he had some, as he hinted in one of the poems he left me
The mansplainers are in full ‘listen-ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading the thing all wrong
Recent migrants found locked in a ship at Rosslare were Kurds and Vietnamese, people on the sharp end of global warming. This trend will only increase
Burke could potentially find himself spending longer in Mountjoy than some of the killers in his midst. That could not pass for justice
Enough already! Now that’s a new year’s resolution that would really make the world a better place
It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
