Justine McCarthy explained

Justine McCarthy
Birth Place:Bandon, Co Cork
Occupation:Writer, broadcaster, journalist
Genre:Non-fiction
Subject:Culture, politics
Notableworks:Mary McAleese: The Outsider,
Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals

Justine McCarthy is an Irish journalist, author and a columwith The Irish Times. One of Ireland's most respected commentators 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 Catholic think tank Iona Institute, objected to McCarthy's Sunday Times column critiquing his conservative agenda.[7]

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.[8]

Notes and References

  1. News: Greenslade . Roy . 15 August 2012 . Irish journalists become professors . The Guardian . Guardian Media Group . 15 August 2012.
  2. Book: McCarthy, Justine . Mary McAleese: The Outsider . Blackwater Press . 1999 . registration.
  3. Web site: 2009 . Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals . O'Brien Press.
  4. Web site: Justine McCarthy . O'Brien Press.
  5. News: Watterson . John . Criminal abuse of child swimmers laid bare . The Irish Times . Irish Times Trust .
  6. News: Myers . Kevin . 26 October 2010 . 'Let's honour brave women but please stick to the facts' . Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . 26 October 2010 . Kevin Myers.
  7. News: 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 . 18 August 2011 . David Quinn (Irish journalist).
  8. Web site: 2012 NNI Journalism Awards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150516200806/http://nni.ie/nni-national-journalist-of-the-year-award-goes-to-irish-independent-team/ . 16 May 2015 . 19 October 2014 . National Newspapers of Ireland.