
Kathy Sheridan: MEPs' unvouched €55,000 expenses symbolise system of entitlement
- Opinion
- February 13, 2019, 05:00
Easy to see why MEPs keen to get noses in Brussels trough

From Nicolás Maduro to Brexit democracy is under threat
- Opinion
- February 6, 2019, 05:00
Big questions remain about source of Leave campaign’s funds

Kathy Sheridan: Tragedy revisits Donegal’s culture of speed and youth
- Opinion
- January 30, 2019, 05:00
Road death reduction has come a long way but there’s no room for complacency

Kathy Sheridan: Gillette’s toxic masculinity ad cuts close to the bone
- Opinion
- January 23, 2019, 05:00
A noxious, belligerent, misogynistic streak has leached into every social and political interaction

Kathy Sheridan: There is nothing funny about Brexit
- Opinion
- January 16, 2019, 05:00
Boris Johnson’s showmanship must not be let reduce politics to entertainment

This Christmas, let’s nominate our A**hole of the Year
- Opinion
- December 19, 2018, 05:00
It’s the sheer resilience of human beings that makes the heart a wonder

Kathy Sheridan: Brexit is a monument to Tory overconfidence
- Opinion
- December 12, 2018, 05:00
Faulty assessments, unrealistic expectations and hazardous decisions are UK’s norm

Glacial pace of new maternity hospital a national scandal
- Opinion
- December 5, 2018, 05:00
Planning deadlines loom, building costs rise and not a block has been laid

Kathy Sheridan: We should follow Europe’s lead on daylight saving
- Opinion
- November 28, 2018, 05:00
Why every October, as nature is facilitating a natural adjustment to fading light, do we voluntarily hasten the onset of darkness?

Kathy Sheridan: Theresa May deserves neither our pity nor our admiration
- Opinion
- November 21, 2018, 05:00
In our rush to sympathise and praise we almost forgot Brexit is about immigration

Women not hallucinating about glass ceilings in Irish universities
- Opinion
- November 14, 2018, 05:00
Women-only posts plan triggers outrage but figures show deep-seated problem

Kathy Sheridan: Truth matters little in Irish political crises
- Opinion
- November 7, 2018, 05:00
McCabe and CervicalCheck episodes show harm done by political posturing

Kathy Sheridan: Peter Casey’s flaws of ignorance
- Opinion
- October 31, 2018, 05:00
No heroic crusader, businessman knows very little and does not bother to find out

Closer scrutiny of the presidency may be the real result of this election
- Opinion
- October 24, 2018, 05:00
No individual should be allowed glide, unquestioned, through 14 years in the nation’s most prestigious job

No reason why President Higgins could not have resigned to campaign fully
- Opinion
- October 17, 2018, 05:00
Presidential campaigns often take a bad turn but this one is damaging the dignity of the office

Kathy Sheridan: Post-crash, trust in officialdom has died
- Opinion
- October 10, 2018, 05:00
Public realises bankers and politicians choose to keep them in the dark

Kathy Sheridan: Drinking and lying catches up with Brett Kavanaugh
- Opinion
- October 3, 2018, 05:00
US supreme court aspirant’s claims about his behaviour are not credible

Kathy Sheridan: What are odds of successfully suing Boris Johnson for lying?
- Opinion
- September 26, 2018, 05:00
Big political lies such as those in Brexit blight democracy by killing voters’ trust

Ireland: The land of the lost perspective
- Opinion
- September 19, 2018, 05:00
Why can’t we just be pleased about the latest the UN development rankings?

Kathy Sheridan: Race for Áras just got weird again
- Opinion
- September 12, 2018, 05:00
Dissimulators, delusionals and fantasists get weeded out as competition intensifies

Kathy Sheridan: Trump's ‘business’ identity no mask for spiteful incivility
- Opinion
- August 29, 2018, 05:00
US president’s draft-avoider reaction to death of hero John McCain far from normal

Kathy Sheridan: Mary McAleese wound the corrupt global connections back to the Vatican
- Opinion
- August 22, 2018, 05:00
Former president’s powerful intervention this week highlights the Church’s warped structure

Kathy Sheridan: Imagine if Boris Johnson is right about the burqa?
- Opinion
- August 15, 2018, 05:00
Dogwhistle signal sent not by hack or clown but by former foreign secretary

Kathy Sheridan: Welcome to this little England, this sedated isle
- Opinion
- August 8, 2018, 05:00
A courteous, predictable and genteel version of England exists in the dreams of many who voted for Brexit

Kathy Sheridan: Britain, please let Danny Dyer’s ‘straight talking’ be Brexit’s nadir
- Opinion
- July 4, 2018, 05:00
The coronation of the Leave-voting actor for his tirade about David Cameron is a new low

Kathy Sheridan: Varadkar deserves our respect even if he is a man
- Opinion
- June 27, 2018, 05:00
The behaviour of politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson reflects well on the Taoiseach

Kathy Sheridan: Ditch smartphones and get your real life back
- Opinion
- June 20, 2018, 05:00
The devices are wonderful but they have evolved into a noxious antisocial habit

Kathy Sheridan: Boris Johnson not fit for one of UK’s highest offices
- Opinion
- June 13, 2018, 05:00
Latest ‘unguarded’ speech being ‘leaked’ at a moment of great vulnerability for his PM is quite a coincidence

Kathy Sheridan: Brexit debate a stupid mongrel feverishly eating its own tail
- Opinion
- June 6, 2018, 05:00
Leavers finding rationale for their No decision under heavy challenge

Kathy Sheridan: Time to move on but some are not helping
- Opinion
- May 30, 2018, 05:00
Bishop Kevin Doran, John McGuirk and Declan Ganley just not accepting Yes vote

Kathy Sheridan: Friday is about so much more than abortion
- Opinion
- May 23, 2018, 13:47
Referendum vote is set against a culture of women being shamed and silenced

Kathy Sheridan: Tone of No side no more humble than in 1983
- Opinion
- May 16, 2018, 05:00
Role of the church and its acolytes in public policy has cast long shadow over Irish life

Kathy Sheridan: Battle over life of Alfie Evans a lesson for us all
- Opinion
- May 2, 2018, 05:00
Religious exploitation of toddler’s short life serves as warning ahead of vote on Eighth Amendment

‘I considered a termination with Jane, but not having one turned out to be right for me’
- Health & Family
- April 28, 2018, 06:00
Martine experienced two fatal foetal abnormalities – and made a different choice for each

Kathy Sheridan: Unicorn returns to the table as bankers’ sense of entitlement strong as ever
- Opinion
- April 25, 2018, 05:00
Proposal shows bankers’ sense of entitlement has survived the banking winter

Kathy Sheridan: Women must not turn on each other
- Opinion
- April 18, 2018, 05:00
Belfast rape case generated charged exchanges between women

Kathy Sheridan: Time to stop rewarding tantrums
- Opinion
- April 11, 2018, 05:00
If people shrink from public debate due to its abusive tone that is a loss to democracy

Sportsmen are role models – whether they like it or not
- Opinion
- April 4, 2018, 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Decent men who have influence stand up for those who don’t

Kathy Sheridan: #MeToo movement is far from over
- Opinion
- March 28, 2018, 05:00
A recent case in Ireland shows how workplace sexual harassment is alive and well

Kathy Sheridan: Hijacking of US electorate has gone under the radar
- Opinion
- March 21, 2018, 05:00
Cambridge Analytica exploited Facebook to get Donald Trump elected

Stormy Daniels could be final straw for Trump faithful
- Opinion
- March 14, 2018, 05:00
Evangelical pulpit-thumping fanboys unlikely to be too impressed

Kathy Sheridan: Why are water charges still up for discussion?
- Opinion
- March 7, 2018, 05:00
Latest threats to supply highlight argument our politicians are too scared to make

Kathy Sheridan: Holding mainstream media to account in era of fake news
- Opinion
- February 21, 2018, 05:00
Vested interests behind distorted Brexit reporting in British newspapers

Kathy Sheridan: Ireland was ahead of the curve on hacking
- Opinion
- February 14, 2018, 05:00
Cyberattacks and social media threats show the benefits of traditional democracy

Kathy Sheridan: Nigel Farage, snake-oil salesman and brazen hypocrite
- Opinion
- February 7, 2018, 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Why does Ukip’s chief dog whistler still accept a €100,000 EU salary?

Kathy Sheridan: Piers Morgan’s Trump interview was toe-sucking PR
- Opinion
- January 31, 2018, 05:00
Ex-‘Daily Mirror’ editor simpers where credible journalists bring predators to account

Kathy Sheridan: Martin embraces nuance on Eighth repeal
- Opinion
- January 24, 2018, 05:00
Fianna Fáil leader gives party pause for thought by rejecting easy certainties

Feminism, we have a problem: Why it’s wrong to turn on Margaret Atwood
- Opinion
- January 17, 2018, 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: #MeToo is a revolution, and ‘guilty because accused’ has kicked in

‘That was some weird sh*t’: an eyeball-scratching year of Trump and Brexit
- Opinion
- December 27, 2017, 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Ignorant shoutiness emerged as the motif of 2017

Kathy Sheridan: Christmas Day is the Hadron Collider of family relationships
- Opinion
- December 20, 2017, 01:00
Everyone deserves a few days free of anger, home truths, sniping and whataboutery

Kathy Sheridan: City of Culture farce pretty much sums up Brexit
- Opinion
- December 13, 2017, 01:00
Blustering have-your-cake-and-eat-it Brexit brigade blunders on regardless

Kathy Sheridan: Finns show Ireland what small country can be
- Opinion
- December 6, 2017, 01:00
State aged 100 near top of world rankings for education, innovation and quality of life

Kathy Sheridan: Why is British public so ignorant on Brexit?
- Opinion
- November 29, 2017, 01:00
Infantile ideas like Ireland should pay for Border part of UK cultivating obtuseness

Kathy Sheridan: Plenty of regret, sorrow and surprise but no shame
- Opinion
- November 22, 2017, 01:00
Common thread of responses to recent revelations is to attempt to minimise them

The ex-hunger striker making fashion items from a H-Block blanket
- People
- November 18, 2017, 06:00
Laurence McKeown is using a blanket from the Maze to make a different kind of statement

Kathy Sheridan: Is a tweeting Taoiseach a good or a bad thing?
- Opinion
- November 15, 2017, 01:00
Varadkar’s shared Twitter photo with a llama could be media savvy or just a bit childish

Bullying and sexual harassment deal different toxic punches
- Opinion
- November 8, 2017, 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: It is vital to distinguish targeting a gender from brutal abuse of power

Dangers of Twitter storms highlighted by Weinstein fallout
- Opinion
- November 1, 2017, 01:00
Social media users who dislike the law should campaign to have it changed

Kathy Sheridan: Terry Leyden remarks show up poor debate
- Opinion
- October 25, 2017, 01:00
Comments by politicians with no scientific basis must be exposed in public as fake

Kathy Sheridan: The man slipped his hand under my top #MeToo
- People
- October 21, 2017, 06:00
Weinstein scandal could be a watershed moment in the fight against sexual harassment

Kathy Sheridan: Beware the backlash to the Weinstein scandal
- Opinion
- October 18, 2017, 01:00
As usual, the focus is already shifting from the accused to the behaviour of his accusers

Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’
- Books
- August 26, 2017, 06:15
The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older

Why did Diana’s death cast a pall on so many people?
- People
- August 26, 2017, 06:00
Twenty years on from Diana’s paparazzi- hounded passing, Kathy Sheridan looks behind the myth

Kathy Sheridan: Trump is the biggest snowflake of them all
- Opinion
- August 9, 2017, 01:00
Yiannopoulos, Scaramucci and now the US president have all got in touch with their feelings

Kathy Sheridan: Kevin Myers’s fall is a long time coming
- Opinion
- August 2, 2017, 01:00
The writer has been spewing evidence-free bile about women for decades

Why is it always men that win the media’s ‘talent’ contest?
- Opinion
- July 26, 2017, 01:00
The issue of gender pay equality comes down to fairness and fundamental social values

Kathy Sheridan: ‘Elderly’ is just a word – sometimes the wrong one
- Opinion
- June 28, 2017, 05:00
If age is only a number, when is it okay to use that culturally loaded term ‘old’?

Kathy Sheridan: May and Corbyn two sides of the same coin
- Opinion
- June 21, 2017, 05:00
Labour leader may have handled the Grenfell disaster better but he is flawed too

Kathy Sheridan: May should apologise to the people of Britain
- Opinion
- June 14, 2017, 05:00
Prime minster has shown contempt for the 48 per cent who voted Remain

Eurovision tells us everything about the state of Europe
- Opinion
- May 17, 2017, 05:00
Irish hubris, Portuguese charm and British arrogance were all in the contest’s limelight

Kathy Sheridan: Have we have reached peak political spouse?
- Opinion
- May 10, 2017, 05:00
From Karen Pence to Philip May, the relevance of political partners is at a low

Kathy Sheridan: You might not like her, but Jackie Lavin has a point about banks
- Opinion
- May 3, 2017, 05:00
She claims Bill Cullen’s business and thousands of others could have been saved

Jackie Lavin interview: ‘You’d swear it was Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie crap’
- Irish News
- April 29, 2017, 05:00
Says coverage of her court action against Bill Cullen over house in Kerry is missing the point

‘It’s likely to be painful’: Madeleine McCann’s 10th anniversary
- People
- April 29, 2017, 05:00
A decade of reporting without ‘conscience’ has persecuted the missing child’s parents

Sheryl Sandberg: 'I don't know anyone who has been handed only roses'
- People
- April 28, 2017, 06:00
Facebook's Sandberg on coping with the sudden death of her husband Dave Goldberg and why she wrote her new book 'Option B'

British media backing Le Pen view of Europe through Brexit prism
- Opinion
- April 26, 2017, 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Support for hard-right candidate a sign of media desperation

Kathy Sheridan: Problem with ending Good Friday ban is ... alcohol
- Opinion
- April 12, 2017, 05:00
When we dump traditions we should at least be clear about our reasons for doing so

Kathy Sheridan: Brexit and Trump promises were just lies
- Opinion
- April 5, 2017, 05:00
Trump and Brexit supporters seem unconcerned by breaches of trust with electorate

Two tribes: The invisible barriers that still divide Belfast
- Irish News
- April 1, 2017, 06:00
The city’s story is encapsulated in a short walk from the centre along the Ormeau Road

Kathy Sheridan: Time to look at link between extremism and sexual violence
- Opinion
- March 29, 2017, 05:00
Many who kill in the name of religion have a history of assault on wives and partners

Kathy Sheridan: The weaponisation of shame
- Opinion
- March 22, 2017, 05:00
Shame has long been used to control women in Ireland so why won’t it work on Trump?

Kathy Sheridan: Another day, another Brexit lie exposed
- Opinion
- March 15, 2017, 05:00
The UK has been sold down the river in a proxy war between Tory public schoolboys

Kathy Sheridan: Tuam baby burials suggest an insidious agenda
- Opinion
- March 8, 2017, 05:00
Scandal disproves defence that the Catholic Church did wrong but was trying to do good

Kathy Sheridan: Rational compassion beats empathy
- Opinion
- March 1, 2017, 01:00
In the social media world the heart always wins over the head – but it shouldn’t

Neil Jordan: ‘Apparently I have a terrifying temper’
- Books
- February 25, 2017, 06:00
The not-grumpy-at-all director on being nominated for a best picture Oscar for ‘The Crying Game’ and how a serious injury led him (...)

Kathy Sheridan: Fine Gael not the only ones to engage in inept political heaves
- Opinion
- February 22, 2017, 06:00
‘Perhaps the mere talk of generational change has the handy side-effect of deleting the past’

Inside Ireland’s boarding school for seven-year-olds
- People
- February 18, 2017, 06:15
Film shines light on trials and joys of pupils and teachers at unique Headfort school

Kathy Sheridan: Prostitution is not a happy career choice
- Opinion
- February 15, 2017, 05:00
Criminalising the purchase but not the sale of sex does not make the industry legitimate

Kathy Sheridan: Stephen Donnelly banking on electoral amnesia
- Opinion
- February 8, 2017, 05:00
After six years of potshots at Fianna Fáil, we must now witness the unmasking of a crush

Gail’s story: ‘I wasn’t alone in helping Bernadette to shut down her life’
- People
- February 4, 2017, 06:00
Gail O’Rorke, acquitted of assisting in the suicide of Bernadette Forde, tells of the ‘nightmare’ that followed her friend’s death

Kathy Sheridan: Donald Trump brings out the best in women
- Opinion
- January 25, 2017, 05:00
Women’s March proved the need to keep protesting the US’s evolving horror show

Kathy Sheridan: Wobbly anthems, wobbly heels and talk of ‘teary’ Trump
- US
- January 20, 2017, 21:10
TV coverage provided it all: Melania’s heels, all-white daughters and a question for Hillary

Trump to lead the most unethical administration of modern times
- US
- January 19, 2017, 20:22
In 2009, the air in Washington DC was filled with joy - Friday will be different

Kathy Sheridan: Media wakes up to the danger of Trump tactics
- Opinion
- January 18, 2017, 05:00
US president-elect has had thousands of hours of airtime for his flights of ignorance

Kathy Sheridan: Trolley crisis has to be kept in perspective
- Opinion
- January 11, 2017, 06:00
Some once-notorious hospitals have battered the problem into some degree of submission

Kathy Sheridan: Beware the seductive simplicity of Apollo House
- Opinion
- December 21, 2016, 04:00
Helping homeless people is expensive, time consuming and requires real commitment

Gillian Bowler: ‘The first successful business woman many of us actually noticed’
- Transport & Tourism
- December 15, 2016, 20:18
Tough and driven, the travel entrepreneur disrupted the entire Irish industry

Kathy Sheridan: Sexual abuse in English football part of pattern
- Opinion
- December 14, 2016, 04:00
How much have we learned about abuse, silence, societal indulgence and power?

Kathy Sheridan: the women of Austria may have saved Europe
- Opinion
- December 7, 2016, 04:00
Some 62% of female voters opted for Van der Bellen (72) who is backed by Green Party

Kathy Sheridan: Michael D got it wrong on Fidel Castro
- Opinion
- November 30, 2016, 04:00
Our elected leaders should be less effusive about foreign leaders – living or dead