Justine McCarthy

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Justine McCarthy
BornBandon, Co Cork
OccupationWriter, broadcaster, journalist
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectCulture, politics
Notable worksMary McAleese: The Outsider
Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals
An Eye on Ireland: New and Selected Journalism

Justine McCarthy is an Irish journalist, author and a columnist with The Irish Times . A commentator on politics and culture, she has been an adjunct professor of Journalism at the University of Limerick. [1] She often appeared on Tonight with Vincent Browne .

She is the author of Mary McAleese: The Outsider, [2] about the eighth President of Ireland; Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals, [3] praised by Pat Kenny and Joe Duffy and described by Fintan O'Toole as "the best of the large crop of books by Irish journalists this year, it grows beyond its immediate subject to become a terrifying anatomy of the capacity for denial and vilification within any enclosed world". [4] [5] and An Eye on Ireland; New and Selected Journalism published by Hachette in 2023.

In October 2010, Kevin Myers criticised McCarthy for an article she wrote concerning John Waters, describing it as "the very quintessence of the feminist narrative". [6] In August 2011, David Quinn, founder of the Iona Institute, a socially conservative organisation that advocates the advancement and promotion of the Christian religion and what it sees as the religion's social and moral values, [7] objected to McCarthy's Sunday Time's column critiquing his conservative agenda. [8]

McCarthy has won more than a dozen national Journalism Awards, including the 2012, 2022 and 2023 NNI Journalism Awards honour in category Columnist of the Year. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Greenslade, Roy (15 August 2012). "Irish journalists become professors". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  2. ↑ McCarthy, Justine (1999). Mary McAleese: The Outsider . Blackwater Press. ( ISBN   1841314412 ISBN   978-1841314419)
  3. ↑ "Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals". O'Brien Press. 2009. ( ISBN   1-84717-204-0 ISBN   978-1-84717-204-4)
  4. ↑ "Justine McCarthy". O'Brien Press.
  5. ↑ Watterson, John. "Criminal abuse of child swimmers laid bare". The Irish Times. Irish Times Trust.
  6. ↑ Myers, Kevin (26 October 2010). "'Let's honour brave women but please stick to the facts'". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  7. ↑ "Iona Institute says IDA call for Yes vote on marriage 'completely unacceptable'". The Irish Times . 1 May 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  8. ↑ Quinn, David (18 August 2011). "Justine McCarthy's caricature of `social conservatives': David Quinn defends his agenda from a narrow interpretation". The Irish Catholic. Catholic Church. Retrieved 18 August 2011.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ "2012 NNI Journalism Awards". National Newspapers of Ireland. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
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