Justine McCarthy is an Irish journalist, author and a columnist with ''

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''. A commentator on politics and culture, she has been an adjunct professor of Journalism at the

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. She often appeared on ''

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''. She is the author of ''Mary McAleese: The Outsider'', about the eighth

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; ''Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals'', praised by

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and

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and described by

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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". and An Eye on Ireland; New and Selected Journalism published by Hachette in 2023. In October 2010,

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criticised McCarthy for an article she wrote concerning

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, describing it as "the very quintessence of the feminist narrative". In August 2011, David Quinn, founder of the

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, objected to McCarthy's ''Sunday Time''s column critiquing his conservative agenda. 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.

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