
Kathy Sheridan: Whither the proud Irish Trump fans now?
- Opinion
- January 13, 2021, 01:00
We’ve taken to aping the protest style of Trump supporters

John Clarke on missing his wife Marian Finucane: ‘I didn’t realise how much we chatted’
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 2, 2021, 06:00
He recalls her ‘peculiar’ attitude to doctors, their ‘crazy’ love and their late daughter

Kathy Sheridan: Politicians should do a U-turn out of the Brexit morass but are too fearful
- Opinion
- December 23, 2020, 01:00
Rather than a sign of weakness, a U-turn shows the presence of a functioning mind

Kathy Sheridan: Le Carré embodied a basic English decency that will outlast Brexit
- Opinion
- December 16, 2020, 01:00
The author’s story is a reminder to keep in sight the millions of decent Britons

Are we enjoying the Brit-bashing just a tad too much?
- Opinion
- December 9, 2020, 01:00
England has long been a haven for our loved ones needing to escape social shaming or seeking a decent life

Kathy Sheridan: What was the purpose of Brian Stanley’s tweet glorifying mass killings?
- Opinion
- December 2, 2020, 01:00
Careless tweets from influential people like Brian Stanley matter terribly

Kathy Sheridan: Dozens of agendas come into play when RTÉ drops its guard
- Opinion
- November 25, 2020, 01:00
Controversial gathering daft and stupid but hardly a hanging offence

Kathy Sheridan: The 'save Christmas' appeal does not fit into narrative for lots of people
- Opinion
- November 18, 2020, 01:00
‘Save Christmas’ drive relies on narrative of the emigrant’s return that belongs to another era

Kathy Sheridan: Presumption evident in Séamus Woulfe’s attitude is arrogance crystallised
- Opinion
- November 11, 2020, 01:00
At a human level, judge is in a pitiable position. At institutional level, he’s a source of fascination

Kathy Sheridan: We knew who Trump was from the start
- Opinion
- November 3, 2020, 17:11
Can we ever go back or have the four years of his presidency taken us in too deep?

Kathy Sheridan: Eventual Covid vaccine will be a hard sell for Ireland’s youth
- Opinion
- October 28, 2020, 02:39
Scepticism, fear and anti-vax beliefs contrast with stay-away patriotism of 1967 emigrants

Kathy Sheridan: Now is the time for humility, not cynicism
- Opinion
- October 21, 2020, 01:00
Covid-19’s icy fingers are ripping the heart and hope out of ordinary people, but we need to find a unity of purpose

Kathy Sheridan: We should be more scared of cervical cancer than Covid
- Opinion
- October 14, 2020, 01:00
Out of 110,000 smear test invitations sent this summer, only 12,000 women responded

Kathy Sheridan: Sniping between Government and Nphet has to stop
- Opinion
- October 7, 2020, 01:00
Country is split down the middle just when it needed unity of purpose

Kathy Sheridan: It’s okay to be shocked about Trump’s taxes
- Opinion
- September 30, 2020, 01:00
This is a president in desperate need of vast injections of cash to save his bacon

Kathy Sheridan: Journalists must stop giving legs to fake news stories
- Opinion
- September 16, 2020, 01:00
Simon Coveney’s BBC interview offered a steely rebuke to idea each story has two equal sides

Kathy Sheridan: It is tempting but Ireland should not give up on the British
- Opinion
- September 9, 2020, 01:00
The UK is still our neighbour despite Boris Johnson’s obfuscation on Brexit

Kathy Sheridan: Big Phil’s apologists fail to see big picture
- Opinion
- September 2, 2020, 01:00
Social solidarity will not flourish where power sticks thumbs in its people’s eyes

Kathy Sheridan: Let us look at who was not at that golf dinner
- Opinion
- August 26, 2020, 01:00
Best of 2020: Woulfe, Hogan, O’Rourke and Hayes trigger lazy comparisons with the Galway tent

Kathy Sheridan: Hume and Lewis cut from the same cloth
- Opinion
- August 5, 2020, 01:02
There is a trove of lessons there for the new crop of politicians who want to learn

Kathy Sheridan: Let Vicky Phelan die on her own terms
- Opinion
- July 29, 2020, 01:00
The time for a debate in Ireland on assisted suicide has come

Kathy Sheridan: It’s worrying when Hungary and Poland claim victory
- Opinion
- July 22, 2020, 01:00
Rule-of-law conditions in EU deal target its authoritarian, hate-spouting nationalists

Kathy Sheridan: We must take our time when reopening Ireland
- Opinion
- July 15, 2020, 01:00
There is no room for Covid-19 risk-taking or bellyaching about 14 days of quarantine

Kathy Sheridan: Covid pandemic a fertile ground for conspiracists, zealots and bigots
- Opinion
- July 8, 2020, 01:00
Polls show high percentage of populations harbouring belief in conspiracy theories

Kathy Sheridan: Be careful what you wish for, Ballina
- Opinion
- July 1, 2020, 01:00
The ‘understanding’ that Ministers represent their regions is a dangerous fiction

Kathy Sheridan: Northern Ireland Greens may have overreached
- Opinion
- June 24, 2020, 01:00
Diving into the Republic’s politics at such a critical moment is quite a departure

Kathy Sheridan: Why this historic coalition took just 70 years
- Opinion
- June 17, 2020, 01:00
The Civil War ceased being relevant to FF and FG policies in the 1950s

Kathy Sheridan: Hard to socially distance from Amazon
- Opinion
- May 20, 2020, 01:00
Despite criticism of how it treats workers, the company is having a good pandemic

Kathy Sheridan: Coronavirus is the most politicised piece of protein in history
- Opinion
- May 13, 2020, 01:00
Covid-19 committee must realise this is not the gotcha territory of the banking inquiry

Cheap, personal shots at politicians demean everyone involved
- Opinion
- May 6, 2020, 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Oliver Callan and Eoin Ó Broin should know better

Kathy Sheridan: Crisis is exposing clay feet of strong men, pathetic Churchillian wannabes
- Opinion
- April 29, 2020, 01:00
Almost every reckless decision ever can be traced to someone persuaded he was a brilliant maverick

Kathy Sheridan: Independent TDs need to wake up to the reality of running the country
- Opinion
- April 22, 2020, 01:00
Constituency supremacy ideology of no use to FF and FG in government formation

Kathy Sheridan: Let the over-70s have a walk
- Opinion
- April 15, 2020, 01:00
A designated time each day would help those struggling in mandatory confinement

Kathy Sheridan: Ireland fiddles with government formation as world burns
- Opinion
- April 8, 2020, 01:00
Why rush into an unsatisfactory arrangement while Covid-19 threat remains?

Kathy Sheridan: I should be enjoying the Covid-19 lockdown but I cannot
- Opinion
- April 1, 2020, 01:00
On the whole, the language on this pandemic is suddenly quite cosy, but many dangers lurk

Kathy Sheridan on Covid-19: Compulsion to pigeonhole groups of people is damaging
- Opinion
- March 25, 2020, 01:00
Virus has introduced a new loaded label, ‘elderly with underlying conditions’

Kathy Sheridan: We are about to find out a lot about ourselves
- Opinion
- March 11, 2020, 05:00
Reaction to coronavirus has become virtual laboratory for national self-scrutiny or lack of it

Kathy Sheridan: We need to start acting like grown-ups over Covid-19
- Opinion
- March 4, 2020, 01:00
From facemasks to distrust of experts, coronavirus has brought out the worst in us

Kathy Sheridan: The trial of Harvey Weinstein is far from over
- Opinion
- February 25, 2020, 17:00
Kathy Sheridan: The fight now moves on to Los Angeles

Memo to Sinn Féin: Not ‘Southern State’ or ‘Free State’, the name is Ireland
- Opinion
- February 19, 2020, 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Sinn Féin must grow accustomed to a vastly higher degree of accountability

Kathy Sheridan: Electorate delivers glorious triumph for Irish democracy
- Opinion
- February 12, 2020, 01:00
Nothing about line-up of potential leaders suggests we have succumbed to an Orban or Salvini

Kathy Sheridan: ‘Posh boy’ label doesn’t stick in Irish politics
- Opinion
- February 5, 2020, 01:00
Claims of privileged education serve too easily to deride Fine Gaelers across all media

Voters must look to painful lessons learned
- Opinion
- January 29, 2020, 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Ask hard questions but beware of dangers of change for sake of change

Kathy Sheridan: Do election debates matter anymore?
- Opinion
- January 22, 2020, 01:00
Mostly they demonstrate if a candidate can remember their lines or not

Kathy Sheridan: The country goes into election mode more fragile than we imagined
- Opinion
- January 15, 2020, 00:10
Brexit showed how easily a country can tip over into something toxic and delusional
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Kathy Sheridan: Virtue signalling drowns us in hopelessness
- Opinion
- January 8, 2020, 05:00
Moral grandstanding fosters anger and obscures improvements in many areas

Kathy Sheridan: Perspectives on what's been a poxy decade
- Opinion
- December 18, 2019, 06:00
Big gift for Christmas 2019 Ireland is the fact that it’s not Christmas 10 years ago

Kathy Sheridan: Truth has been the first casualty of the Brexit election
- Opinion
- December 11, 2019, 06:00
The perpetrators feel invincible. Lying is the default. Good luck to us all

Kathy Sheridan: The trouble with Maureen Dowd’s brother? He’s wrong
- Opinion
- December 4, 2019, 06:00
NYT columnist briefly handing controls to her Trumpist sibling leaves readers with a problem

Kathy Sheridan: If Verona Murphy is elected on Friday, what will it tell us?
- Opinion
- November 27, 2019, 06:00
Fine Gael’s reaction to candidate's comments on immigration is infuriating

Kathy Sheridan: FF senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee a fool twice over
- Opinion
- November 20, 2019, 06:00
'Fact-free nonsense': Why would an educated young woman believe such things, never mind tweet them?

Kathy Sheridan: It is too late for Ana Kriégel but nettles must finally be grasped
- Opinion
- November 13, 2019, 06:00
Concerns over fact that most teenagers view pornography has been known for a decade

Kathy Sheridan: Katie Hill is the victim of a new blackmail
- Opinion
- November 6, 2019, 06:00
The former US congresswoman has said she was worried that if she stayed in office, more compromising images would emerge

Kathy Sheridan: 'Votegate' should not be used for political gain
- Opinion
- October 30, 2019, 06:00
Fuss over voting practices is not on a par with historic political scandals

Kathy Sheridan: Extinction Rebellion occupation reveals good politics but bad government
- Opinion
- October 23, 2019, 06:00
Lord Mayor’s acquiescence to Merrion Square camp puts city chief in bind

Rural Ireland’s dependence on cars defies trite solutions
- Opinion
- October 16, 2019, 06:00
Kathy Sheridan: Ryan’s suggestion taps into perception of bubble-living urban dwellers

Kathy Sheridan: Grown-up Brexit politics must be beyond inter-party snipes
- Opinion
- October 9, 2019, 06:00
Taoiseach’s after-dinner jibe at Fianna Fáil was a cheap and silly potshot

Kathy Sheridan: We are all Athena to Boris Johnson’s Heracles
- Opinion
- September 11, 2019, 06:00
Brexit mess, modern politics and the potential wisdom of myth

Time to tell London about our shared history and responsibility
- Opinion
- September 4, 2019, 01:00
The clock is ticking on towards October 31st and some kind of vent is called for

Kathy Sheridan: Excruciating displays of political machismo are nothing new
- Opinion
- August 28, 2019, 06:00
Putting your foot in it: Boris Johnson’s bad manners at Élysée Palace is another example

Edna O’Brien: ‘I have a ferocity in me, but I’m also fearful’
- Books
- August 24, 2019, 06:00
Fearful of what? ‘Many things – people, life, swimming, bicycles, shouting, animals...’

Kathy Sheridan: Killian Foley-Walsh should shut up and listen
- Opinion
- August 14, 2019, 06:00
Young America’s Foundation funding merits close ideological inspection

Kathy Sheridan: Spare me the people’s voice
- Opinion
- August 7, 2019, 06:00
In a world where social media means no opinion ever goes unexpressed, the vox pop is hauling sand to the desert

Kathy Sheridan: Why should Ireland fix Brexit for Britain?
- Opinion
- July 31, 2019, 06:00
Brexiteers are putting pressure on Dublin to act on something they do not care about

Kathy Sheridan: Boris Johnson is already a modern-day Churchill
- Opinion
- July 24, 2019, 06:00
Next British prime minister peddles the same false hope and belief in his own centrality

Kathy Sheridan: Water crisis and Brexit mess show we are still living in 1977
- Opinion
- July 17, 2019, 06:00
New census questions inspire reflection on what a reader from the past might want to know

Kathy Sheridan: Kim Darroch was undone by the enemy within
- Opinion
- July 10, 2019, 06:00
Leaks tell us everything about the feral rage coursing through Brexit patriots

Don’t look to Love Island for life lessons
- Opinion
- July 3, 2019, 06:00
Occasional act of assertiveness by a female contestant cannot belie all the self-regard, exterior personalities, sexual predation,(...)

Kathy Sheridan: Boris Johnson’s credentials can’t be separated from his carry-on
- Opinion
- June 26, 2019, 06:00
Right to privacy is not so straightforward when running for prime minister of the UK

Kathy Sheridan: How Ireland and the Garda closed ranks on Majella Moynihan
- Opinion
- June 19, 2019, 05:00
Atmosphere that pervaded the Garda and society wrecked many lives

Inept slew of Tory politicians have hands on history’s tiller
- Opinion
- June 12, 2019, 05:00
This is a time when we can only feel a deep well of sympathy for ordinary British people

Kathy Sheridan: Trump has already reduced Britain to vassal status
- Opinion
- June 5, 2019, 05:00
The dangled bait of a US-UK trade deal is laced with predatory controls and manipulations

Kathy Sheridan: Polls remind that resilience is a pillar of politics
- Opinion
- May 29, 2019, 05:00
Eamon Ryan and Terence Flanagan are beacons for struggle leading to success

Kathy Sheridan: What is the point of county councillors?
- Opinion
- May 22, 2019, 05:00
Just 8.4% of funds flow through local government compared with Denmark’s 66%

Kathy Sheridan: We need to get agitated about O’Connell Street again
- Opinion
- May 8, 2019, 05:00
Beleaguered street deserves the best we can offer in design and creativity

Kathy Sheridan: ‘No-one likes us, we don’t care’ will only take the fake soldiers so far
- Opinion
- May 1, 2019, 05:00
Dissidents failed to anticipate furious backlash from new generation

Kathy Sheridan: Victimhood of some Christians is not what the world needs
- Opinion
- April 24, 2019, 05:00
Declan Ganley’s response to Notre Dame fire was in stark contrast to the unity elsewhere

Kathy Sheridan: Toxic banking ‘groupthink’ has run out of road
- Opinion
- April 17, 2019, 05:00
Some 3,000 bank workers express concern about their employers’ values

Kathy Sheridan: Attacking Varadkar for Kylie letter is hypocritical
- Opinion
- April 10, 2019, 05:00
For years we craved youth in politicians. Now we have it, we should cut them some slack

Kathy Sheridan: Meet the Irish party that is happy to follow Farage's lead
- Opinion
- April 3, 2019, 05:00
Embryonic grouping is raising cash to run candidates in European elections

Kathy Sheridan: FAI, John Delaney and the beautiful game gone wrong
- Opinion
- March 27, 2019, 05:00
Good governance: Football is big business and needs to be run properly

Kathy Sheridan: Context is all when it comes to republican symbols
- Opinion
- March 20, 2019, 05:00
Why are people shocked at Sinn Féin’s leader marching with a 100-year-old banner?

Kathy Sheridan: Lisa Smith must answer for any actions that helped Islamic State
- Opinion
- March 13, 2019, 05:00
Group’s atrocities already notorious when ex-soldier travelled to Syria

Kathy Sheridan: Safety laws needed to deal with online hatred
- Opinion
- March 6, 2019, 05:00
What can be done about erosion of civility and humanity is a challenge for us all

Kathy Sheridan: Do the contradictions in Ellie Kisyombe’s story matter?
- Opinion
- February 20, 2019, 05:00
Anyone running for office must be candid but she is also a tireless advocate for asylum seeker’s rights

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