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Kathy Sheridan

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A question some politicians would do well to ponder: where is your shame?

A question some politicians would do well to ponder: where is your shame?

Without shame, everything is possible, and for Donald Trump, the most shameless man in the world, nothing is beyond the bounds of decency

11.03.2026 10

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Forget the egregious pinkwashing of International Women’s Day – this is what women need

Places such as maternity hospitals and the family law courts, where women are most likely to need physical privacy and comfort, are the least likely...

04.03.2026 20

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Boys should be told about the heroes and villains in Gisèle Pelicot’s story

Far from drowning in hatred, victimhood and despair, she has retained her faith in humanity and found new love

02.03.2026 10

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White House shamrock ceremony now worth about as much as a Melania meme coin

11.02.2026 10

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Sinn Féin is deliberately being obtuse about EU plan to help Ukraine

04.02.2026 9

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Investors are stockpiling gold. I’m stocking up on Aldi torches

28.01.2026 8

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Irish people are wrong about immigration, but are we ready for our own Trump?

21.01.2026 20

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Shooting of Renee Good by Ice agent predictably brings out the ‘anti-woke’ merchants

14.01.2026 20

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Shooting of Renee Good by Ice agent predictably brings out the ‘anti-woke’ merchants

14.01.2026 10

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Why do the same people who worry about an overheating planet brag about using cocaine?

07.01.2026 10

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Leo Varadkar’s admission about empathy was a brave one

31.12.2025 10

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Whatever happened to joy to the world? You have to look hard

24.12.2025 20

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Phones are here to stay - but so are cars, and we don’t let 11-year-olds drive

17.12.2025 40

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We already had a perfectly good term for ‘rage bait’ – it’s hate speech

10.12.2025 10

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‘Hello, are you in Galway tonight?’ Sex trafficking was here long before the Epstein files

03.12.2025 10

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Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?

26.11.2025 10

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I split the family home with my daughter. Here’s what the Government needs to do

19.11.2025 10

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With its big, ridiculous mistake, the BBC played into the hands of an authoritarian liar

12.11.2025 10

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Anti-woke Ivan Yates must have seemed the obvious choice to toughen Jim Gavin up

05.11.2025 10

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Where are the patriots protesting when Irish men are the ones carrying out assaults?

29.10.2025 10

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No, Maria Steen wasn’t robbed and the election isn’t rigged

22.10.2025 10

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Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

15.10.2025 10

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Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

15.10.2025 10

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Threats to Simon Harris are a red alert for Irish society

10.09.2025 20

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Tricolour fetishists take inspiration from England. The irony doesn’t end there

03.09.2025 10

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Harvey Morrison Sherratt’s parents are a politician’s nightmare: articulate, calm, grieving

27.08.2025 10

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Tony Holohan’s reluctance to admit mistakes sits badly with the national mood

19.08.2025 10

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Why would 35-year-old CEO Gareth Sheridan want to be entombed in the Áras for seven years?

12.08.2025 10

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Refusing to see the links between domestic violence and wider society amount to reckless denial

06.08.2025 10

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Is Brigitte Macron wise to sue a right-wing podcaster over crackpot claims she was born a man?

30.07.2025 20

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Whether the abuse happens in Rathfarnham or west Belfast, the story is the same

23.07.2025 10

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Plenty of people will happily live in a smaller, darker unit if the price is right

16.07.2025 10

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Breaking down in tears at the scene was mortifying. It was also the only sane response

09.07.2025 10

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Kneecap owe Keir Starmer, the BBC and Helen from Wales a thank you

02.07.2025 10

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Should influencers and politicians share photographs of their children online?

25.06.2025 8

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So far nobody wants the Presidency and its quarter-of-a-million euro salary. Why?

18.06.2025 9

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Remembering Housewife of the Year, deadbeat husbands and patronising Gay Byrne

11.06.2025 20

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If Gerry Adams wanted to put manners on the BBC, why not do it in Belfast?

04.06.2025 20

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I have nothing against cycling, but spare me from speeding cyclists on country paths

28.05.2025 10

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Skorts issue is about policing women. The fuss around Kim Kardashian’s courtroom garb is not

21.05.2025 20

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Who felt informed enough in those first few days to call Alan Hawe a cold-blooded murderer? 

14.05.2025 10

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‘Woke’ keeps coming up in elections but it is a meaningless insult

07.05.2025 10

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Should commuters have to put up with interminable phone conversations, bursts of TikTok and blaring music?

30.04.2025 10

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Pope Francis was an equal opportunities thorn in the side

23.04.2025 10

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Conor McGregor is the weirdest objection yet to plans for an elected Dublin mayor

16.04.2025 10

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Don’t blame all Americans for Donald Trump

09.04.2025 10

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Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks

02.04.2025 10

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Healthy over-70s had no idea they were old until the order came to ‘cocoon’

26.03.2025 10

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Why women are having fewer babies, in Ireland and worldwide

12.03.2025 20

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Nathan McDonnell’s carry-on-as-normal behaviour suggested a profound dissociation from the €32m of crystal meth in his yard

05.03.2025 10

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