He has covered many of the big stories in the North of England spanning from the Hillsborough disaster to the 2011 Manchester riots and the 2015 floods in Cumbria, Lancashire and York.
McCarthy has covered major international events in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and Washington DC.
He reported live during riots from the centre of Athens and on the Boston Marathon bombings in the US, and the storming of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa in 2014.
Mike McCarthy drew attention to the pressures on people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and called for more mental health support for men.
[2] McCarthy then connected with Steve Phillip, a prominent keynote speaker in the world of social media and sales & marketing, who had also lost his own son to suicide in December 2019.