Kathy Sheridan: Jibes about appearance will deprive us of good people in public rolesThe public will be the losers when it comes to personal abuse targeting politiciansWed Sept 15 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Acquisition of Irish passport as Brexit avoidance ticket is annoyingTo many, Irish citizenship means a lot more than a Brexit avoidance ticketWed Sept 08 2021 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: The coarsening of political, public and private discourse has gone too farWho decides when a taboo word slides into acceptable use?Wed Sept 01 2021 - 02:00
Fighting for basic human rights is not some delusional feminist obsessionWhen did basic women’s rights come to be regarded as 'privileged'?Wed Aug 25 2021 - 03:31
Kathy Sheridan: Only ideological blindness could dismiss the past 20 years in Afghanistan as wasteLast two decades saw healthcare for women, school enrolment in Afghanistan improveWed Aug 18 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Sinn Féin presents middle class with dilemmaParty’s glorification of killers hard to reconcile with its progressive policiesWed Aug 11 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: It’s going to take a lot more than Hazel Chu to shake up the SeanadCould Trinity’s electorate be inspired to shock the Government into action?Wed Aug 04 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Where do five-pints-in fans get confidence to tell Olympic athletes how to do it?Athletes triumph with ambition and talent as gold medal-obsessed fans pontificate lazilyWed Jul 28 2021 - 01:06
Kathy Sheridan: Mary Lou is an enigma with leadership in her sightsThe Sinn Féin leader embodies middle-class privilege but peddles an anti-establishment lineSat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
Kathy Sheridan: David Frost playing a dangerous tribal game over Northern Ireland protocolPromising to have protocol gone by July 12th is part of a pattern of recklessnessWed May 19 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Eoghan Harris’s defence doesn’t stack upThere is a distinction between robust commentary and vitriolic abuseWed May 12 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Poots and Donaldson lack passion, intellect and outward gazeNo adjective in English literature can make two DUP candidates look plausibleWed May 05 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Jury is still out on body camerasWorn by gardaí or citizens, surveillance devices raise issues for privacy and evidenceWed Apr 28 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: A sudden, blinding bout of sadness accompanied my vaccine appointmentIn real life, face-to-face with someone shrunken by 13 months of rules and worry, my news would have been akin to a tauntWed Apr 21 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: The online threat to the integrity of Irish elections lies withinAs a political party, Sinn Féin is not alone in its creation of a big internal voter databaseWed Apr 14 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Public toilets are key to dignity, health and wellbeingDublin is caught short for provision of conveniences – especially for womenWed Apr 07 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Beacon-type entitlement evident in vaccine raceWe must remember the ‘losers’ who miss out and the privileged who have stolen their placeWed Mar 31 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: UK vaccine rollout success facilitated by EUBrussels ban on drug exports would derail Johnson but such a fight not worth EU’s timeWed Mar 24 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: More damaged men out there than we realiseAre we ready at last to address the dynamics of male violence, power and abuse?Wed Mar 10 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Mockery is oxygen for Covid-19 deniersKathy Sheridan: How is civil society to challenge their abhorrent views?Wed Mar 03 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Negativity has leached into the nation’s poresPublic tolerance for vague, incomplete or out-dated information is at zeroWed Feb 24 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: If you are not bone-tired by now you should beLast 12 months compelled all of us to confront exhausting maze of moral dilemmasWed Feb 17 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Is Stephen Donnelly out of his depth as Minister for Health?Despite his armour-plated confidence, the Fianna Fáiler fails to convinceWed Feb 10 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Are we really too passive, too deferential, to government?We eschew physical violence because we have learnt the power of the ballot boxWed Feb 03 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Pandemic is reminder of poison in British and Irish politicsNow is not the time for a Border pollWed Jan 27 2021 - 08:55
Kathy Sheridan: There is no fairytale ending to the Trump version of American PsychoBiden’s inauguration is a moment of hope but myths are too ingrained to be shifted easilyWed Jan 20 2021 - 01:00
Yes commissioner: The unapologetically ambitious Mairead McGuinnessOur EU commissioner is among the guests at upcoming Irish Times Winter Nights festivalSun Jan 17 2021 - 06:00
Kathy Sheridan: Whither the proud Irish Trump fans now?We’ve taken to aping the protest style of Trump supportersWed Jan 13 2021 - 01:00
John Clarke on missing his wife Marian Finucane: ‘I didn’t realise how much we chatted’He recalls her odd attitude to doctors, their ‘crazy’ love and their late daughterSat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
Kathy Sheridan: Politicians should do a U-turn out of the Brexit morass but are too fearfulRather than a sign of weakness, a U-turn shows the presence of a functioning mindWed Dec 23 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Le Carré embodied a basic English decency that will outlast BrexitThe author’s story is a reminder to keep in sight the millions of decent BritonsWed Dec 16 2020 - 01:00
Are we enjoying the Brit-bashing just a tad too much?England has long been a haven for our loved ones needing to escape social shaming or seeking a decent lifeWed Dec 09 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: What was the purpose of Brian Stanley’s tweet glorifying mass killings?Careless tweets from influential people like Brian Stanley matter terriblyWed Dec 02 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Dozens of agendas come into play when RTÉ drops its guardControversial gathering daft and stupid but hardly a hanging offenceWed Nov 25 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: The 'save Christmas' appeal does not fit into narrative for lots of people‘Save Christmas’ drive relies on narrative of the emigrant’s return that belongs to another eraWed Nov 18 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Presumption evident in Séamus Woulfe’s attitude is arrogance crystallisedAt a human level, judge is in a pitiable position. At institutional level, he’s a source of fascinationWed Nov 11 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: We knew who Trump was from the startCan we ever go back or have the four years of his presidency taken us in too deep?Tue Nov 03 2020 - 17:11
Kathy Sheridan: Eventual Covid vaccine will be a hard sell for Ireland’s youthScepticism, fear and anti-vax beliefs contrast with stay-away patriotism of 1967 emigrantsWed Oct 28 2020 - 10:10
Kathy Sheridan: Now is the time for humility, not cynicismCovid-19’s icy fingers are ripping the heart and hope out of ordinary people, but we need to find a unity of purposeWed Oct 21 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: We should be more scared of cervical cancer than CovidOut of 110,000 smear test invitations sent this summer, only 12,000 women respondedWed Oct 14 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Sniping between Government and Nphet has to stopCountry is split down the middle just when it needed unity of purposeWed Oct 07 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: It’s okay to be shocked about Trump’s taxesThis is a president in desperate need of vast injections of cash to save his baconWed Sept 30 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Journalists must stop giving legs to fake news storiesSimon Coveney’s BBC interview offered a steely rebuke to idea each story has two equal sidesWed Sept 16 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: It is tempting but Ireland should not give up on the BritishThe UK is still our neighbour despite Boris Johnson’s obfuscation on BrexitWed Sept 09 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Big Phil’s apologists fail to see big pictureSocial solidarity will not flourish where power sticks thumbs in its people’s eyesWed Sept 02 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Let us look at who was not at that golf dinnerBest of 2020: Woulfe, Hogan, O’Rourke and Hayes trigger lazy comparisons with the Galway tentWed Aug 26 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Hume and Lewis cut from the same clothThere is a trove of lessons there for the new crop of politicians who want to learnWed Aug 05 2020 - 01:02
Kathy Sheridan: Let Vicky Phelan die on her own termsThe time for a debate in Ireland on assisted suicide has comeWed Jul 29 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: It’s worrying when Hungary and Poland claim victoryRule-of-law conditions in EU deal target its authoritarian, hate-spouting nationalistsWed Jul 22 2020 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: We must take our time when reopening IrelandThere is no room for Covid-19 risk-taking or bellyaching about 14 days of quarantineWed Jul 15 2020 - 02:36
