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Justine McCarthy: An Eye on Ireland

In her new book, An Eye on Ireland, award-winning journalist and Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy shares new and selected pieces of work from her long-spanning career in journalism. For four decades, McCarthy’s writing has challenged stereotypes, held power to account and helped amplify the v…

Harris delivers on Stardust as McEntee fumbles the border question

Hugh Linehan is joined by Pat Leahy and Harry McGee to look back on the week in politics: Taoiseach Simon Harris’s sure-footed performance as he delivered an apology to the Stardust tragedy victims. Less good was Minister for Justice Helen McEntee’s appearance at an Oireachtas committee, where …

Is the world getting angrier?

Drivers, students, stay-at-home parents, working people - we all seem to be more stressed at the very least, angrier at best. Shop workers, nurses, bus drivers- they all report getting shouted at, spat at or hit every week. There's a lot of fear in the world today - wars, the growth in dictators, t…

Is calling women ‘girls’ a bad thing?

An interesting piece in the Irish Times today where columnist Justine McCarthy is critical of people using the term ‘girls’ to refer to women.  She says - calling grown women ‘girls’ is inherently belittling. What do you think?   To discuss, Andrea is joined by writer and broadcaster, Barbara Scull…

Derry O’Rourke: Ireland’s most convicted child sex abuser

Content warning: This episode contains details of child sexual abuse and may cause some listeners distress. "They called him God, and the room where he molested them the ‘chamber of horrors,’" says journalist Justine McCarthy, who has followed the trials of Derry O'Rourke since the 1990s. The forme…

Clare Daly throws a cat among the pigeons in Dublin Central

Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee join Hugh to discuss the week in politics: The Government is completing what it can of its unfinished legislative programme before the general election, and that means the 'guillotine' - a procedure that shortens the time needed to debate bills as they pass through t…

Daniel Aruebose inquiry upgraded to homicide, and other top stories today

A homicide investigation has been opened into the death of toddler Daniel Aruebose, whose remains were found on open ground in Donabate, north Dublin, last September. Our crime and security editor Conor Lally says today would have been the boy’s eighth birthday. The RTE payments scandal gripped the…

Ex-Swim Coach George Gibney Jailed For More Than 15 Years

Former swimming coach George Gibney has been jailed for fifteen years and six months for the sexual abuse of four girls between 1971 and 1981. Today FM reporter Jamie O’Hara joins The Last Word to outline the details of the sentence and Justine McCarthy, columnist with the Irish Times, joins to re…