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Justine McCarthy

The Irish Times

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Penalising a widow for taking her late husband off the insurance is pretty callous

Insurance firms’ rules are nonsensical enough to drive you round the bend, although you’ll find that consequence is not covered by your policy

02.03.2026 10

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Dublin Airport will reach breaking point. It’s time to revisit the case for Baldonnel

Lifting the passenger cap and buying up homes of residents disturbed by noise only goes so far. We need a second airport

13.02.2026 10

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Melania Trump is the ultimate Stepford wife: silent, unseeing and uncaring

06.02.2026 10

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Sympathy for politicians Michael Cahill and Colm Keaveney is misplaced

30.01.2026 9

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Trump would sooner make apple pie than peace, but he has done us one favour

23.01.2026 10

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Ireland basks in Hamnet’s success and celebrates Jessie Buckley. It should feel shame

16.01.2026 20

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Going to Trump’s Doonbeg? You should be ashamed of yourself

09.01.2026 10

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Patrons of Trump’s Doonbeg hotel ought to hide their faces in shame

09.01.2026 40

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Who decides what the common good is in Ireland? The uncommonly privileged, that’s who

02.01.2026 20

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Bike sheds, Molly Malone and ghost buses: the things we talked about in 2025

25.12.2025 20

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It is right to be careful about our language after Bondi. But we can’t fall silent on Gaza

19.12.2025 30

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The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

12.12.2025 90

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Justine McCarthy: The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ

12.12.2025 70

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If we’re going to start renaming everything, why stop at Herzog Park?

05.12.2025 20

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Happy Black Friday - also known as Insatiable Consumption Day

28.11.2025 10

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Where was the broadcast media’s due diligence on Ivan Yates?

07.11.2025 10

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Irish unity has come closer, thanks to Catherine Connolly and Jim O’Callaghan

31.10.2025 10

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Anyone with a shred of humanity would feel sorry for the parents of Paddy Jackson

24.10.2025 10

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Catherine Connolly can criticise the EU and still become president

17.10.2025 10

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This presidential election could be about to get even weirder

10.10.2025 10

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Netanyahu and Trump have a lot in common but only one of them is an evil genius

03.10.2025 10

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If Northerners had a vote, Catherine Connolly would be our next president

26.09.2025 20

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Why are so many people in Ireland so rude?

19.09.2025 10

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Bringing the Irish Open to Trump’s Doonbeg bolsters golf’s elitist image

12.09.2025 20

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‘King Gimme’ Trump is lording it over the planet. Time someone stood up to him

05.09.2025 10

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Catherine Connolly must unhitch her presidential wagon from Clare Daly and Mick Wallace

29.08.2025 30

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Searing summer may be telling us the race to halt global warming is lost

22.08.2025 20

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Ireland set to feel the heat from Washington’s Maga brigade over Occupied Territories Bill

15.08.2025 10

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Michael O’Leary and Dermot Desmond’s MetroLink comments show you can be rich and wrong

08.08.2025 10

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Keir Starmer and Donald Trump looked ready to put a ring on it. No wonder Melania stayed at home

01.08.2025 10

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Thirty two children from the West Bank watched the All-Ireland in Jordan. This wasn’t the plan

25.07.2025 10

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Presidency is not a Rose of Tralee contest for over-35s. Some qualities are non-negotiable

18.07.2025 20

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The cost of living in Ireland is nuts. Even nuttier are the reasons supposed to explain it

11.07.2025 20

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For over 30 years, George Gibney has lived as a free man, without having to face a trial

04.07.2025 10

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What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades?

27.06.2025 20

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Nurses risked everything for us during the pandemic. Now many are abandoned to its awful legacy

20.06.2025 10

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Humanity might yet prove the species that was too stupid and greedy to save itself

13.06.2025 10

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Philanderer Daniel O’Connell lies in a hero’s grave, his wife Mary in an overgrown tomb

30.05.2025 10

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This lonely, overgrown tomb of cracked stone is a metaphor for Irish attitudes to women in history

30.05.2025 20

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Leo Varadkar has more to offer than reality TV shows or doling out PR advice to mega-rich clients

23.05.2025 10

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Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news

16.05.2025 10

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Anyone not coupled up gets the message – no dogs or singletons welcome

09.05.2025 10

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Payment of Denis O’Brien’s legal costs sounds like a bad joke

02.05.2025 10

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Brace yourself as world’s leaders make holy show of themselves at Pope’s funeral

25.04.2025 10

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Happy birthday, Mr President. Like Ireland, you’re not perfect but you broke the mould

18.04.2025 10

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A boycott of US goods is not cruel to Americans if it helps hasten Trump’s demise

11.04.2025 20

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Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy

04.04.2025 10

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Dear Tipperary North voter, I’m furious with you for foisting Michael Lowry on us all

28.03.2025 10

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We would not invite Putin or Netanyahu to Ireland. So why invite their idiot facilitator?

21.03.2025 10

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If men were killing beetles at the rate they’re attacking women, something would be done

14.03.2025 10

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