Justine McCarthy is an Irish writer, broadcaster and a columwith ''

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''. One of Ireland's most respected commentators on politics and culture, she is 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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, and ''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". In October 2010,

Kevin Myers Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947) is an English-born Irish journalist and writer. He has contributed to the ''Irish Independent'', the Irish edition of ''The Sunday Times'', and ''The Irish Times''s column "An Irishman's Diary". Myers is kno ...

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 and 2022 NNI Journalism Awards honour in category Columnist of the Year.

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