Kathy Sheridan

Kathy Sheridan

Kathy Sheridan is a staff journalist with The Irish Times.

Stories of abortion

THIS WEEK IN the Dáil, a private members’ Bill to give effect to the 20-year-old Supreme Court decision in the “X” case was introd(...)

Ireland sow seeds but Wales flower in the end

AFTER A rousing belt of “Why, why, why Delilah?” (why indeed) and the Black Velvet Band (the usual tribute to Tommy Bowe, we …

'To get their attention I started a Tall Irish Leprechaun blog'

Jonathan Cloonan explains why ‘Forbes’ magazine has made him one of its ‘30 Under 30’ young innovators

A tale or two

All I Want for Christmas is a collection of heart-warming short stories written by some of Ireland’s bestselling authors, all…

'I've come to court . . . to ask you to assist me in having a peaceful, dignified death'

The imagery represented justice at its most humane

Convention takes the Constitution in one hand and direct democracy in the other

It’s a messy business, democracy. Start involving citizens – aka regular people – and who knows where it will end?

25 years on, how different are we?

In 1987, the Economist magazine carried a bleak feature on Ireland

Fallout for judge will not end when jail term is over

Legal history was made in the Criminal Courts of Justice yesterday when the first member of the judiciary convicted of a serious…

Quartet's stringent criticism is music to the ear

Four Angry Men paint a stark picture of economic woes but still raise laughs

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Galleries

A firefighter tries to put out a fire at a plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province, Indonesia. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control peatland fires, Antara News Agency reported. The fires are being blamed for dense smog in neighbouring Singapore. Photograph: Aswaddy Hamid/Reuters Singaporean smog and Indonesian fires
This is Nanoweek 2013, and to mark it an exhibition, NanoArt 13, of 100 ‘nanolandscapes’ (research images, at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt) is being held at Trinity College Dublin, the Tryskell Arts Centre in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute at UCC. Here is a selection of the images. Above, 'Insect egg on a Leaf' by Patrick Carolan, Tyndall National Institute. Insect egg on underside of leaf. Stuff you never get to see

Blogs

Russell Brand makes mince meat of MSNBC

Watch the comedian (through your fingers, if you must) tear the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC apart.
Y-Day: Kanye West’s trip from “College Dropout” to “Yeezus”

The rapper you might love to hate is still producing gems
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