Kathy Sheridan

If people are unsure what to think about immigration, it’s hardly surprising. Clear, timely information is the first requirement

Sweeping attacks on any profession, trade, group or class are not helpful. Let’s have a civilised debate between the president and selected economists in a public forum

Her family believed then and now she was being harassed or stalked. But those terms had barely entered the language, let alone the law

Kathy Sheridan: Michael D Higgins has a history of taking pops at economists. No wonder they’re seething

Tucker Carlson is gone, Murdoch may be next; the notion it could one day be Putin and his fans seems outlandish, but hope abides

The reception given to the US president provoked a kind of quasi-racist needling in right-leaning UK papers

Four years on, almost half of maternity sites don’t offer termination-of-pregnancy services, leading to a postcode lottery

Starbuck’s chief plans to spend four hours a month serving coffee

Israeli public opinion is not homogenous and has given the prime minister notice that his government can go only so far

Hammy theatricals, performative anger and ranty soundbites designed for the main news bulletins are no substitute

Anyone tempted to hammer at decisions made by others in the scorching heat of the pandemic should be careful to examine their own sometimes complex record

Do they think that after Putin has demonstrated what a great leader he is and how he defeated the mighty Nato, he’s going to stop there?

It’s time for the Tory leader to stand up to his own party and make the protocol deal a confidence issue

Before turning our noses up at his statements to the Mahon tribunal, let us not forget 42% voted for him in 2007

Lies, distortions, overt racism, online grift and props such as the national flag are imported straight from the Trump/Bannon playbook

Three years on, British backing idea leaving EU was an error and they were never destined for sunlit uplands

Somewhere between the bank bailout and the election of Trump, incontinent rage became normalised

The population has soared, we are close to full employment and life expectancy is the highest in Europe

Meanwhile, Putin is terrified of his own people and even more terrified of battlefield humiliation

There are people – usually men – who will set the world on fire rather than admit to defeat

Saturday’s simple transfer of power between Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar must be celebrated in context of world politics buckling under autocracy and threat

Right now, the don’t knows and undecideds seem by far the most sane and rational of thinkers

Seven out of 10 Irish voters would refuse to give up Amhrán na bhFiann for the sake of unity

When a front row guest of honour at the World Cup opening is Saudi’s Mohammed bin Salman – what is it but purest geopolitics?

England’s first game is against Iran, a regime shooting and battering teenage girls while keeping Putin supplied with drones to murder and maim Ukrainian children

Issue of how to accommodate unionists in a united Ireland would be a big ask for 99 ordinary citizens

Past six years show how deeply proud nations can sink once a strongman rises, populism takes hold and democracy’s guardrails are removed

Generational memory is important because the past is always with us, regardless of whether or how we wish to project it

Despite a startling apology, there is nothing to explain his whipsaw conversion to the cause of rationality in Northern Ireland

While Truss and Kwarteng backtracked on tax cuts, UK Labour soared in the polls — something has shifted

Hard-right leader will have scant time for her shtick about nation, family and Christianity once in power

Inheritance used to be bonus when someone sadly died but now applies pressure for urgent transfers from the still living

Why did we ignore what was happening in Ukraine? Why have we tuned out from Palestine?

Garden of Remembrance visit and queen’s bow to fallen Irish rebels a highly charged moment

British PM candidate’s political pragmatism goes no further than sticking her finger in air, checking which way wind blows and posting it on Instagram

Writer once said said `the moment somebody says “yes I believe in free speech but” I stop listening’

PM candidate batted persuasively for Remain when it appeared to be the winning side, then did a hard reverse

The pain, fear and isolation suffered by gay and bisexual men for months is now an urgent global concern

Inside Politics: Russian embassy expulsions followed weeks-long backbench campaign

Inside Politics: Taoiseach said to be ‘crystal clear’ Ireland would not be found wanting