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Kathy Sheridan

Kathy Sheridan

The Irish Times

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The public may not care who gets to speak in the Dáil, but they do care about being taken for fools

05.02.2025 10

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Kathy Sheridan

Tech bros welcome masculine energy back to workplace. It’s news to me it ever went away

29.01.2025 20

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Kathy Sheridan

It’s a good time for a higher tax on Ireland’s 11 billionaires

22.01.2025 10

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Kathy Sheridan

News of Ireland’s 11 billionaires makes this a good time to talk about a wealth tax

22.01.2025 10

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Kathy Sheridan

Mark Zuckerberg’s pronouncements confirm that ‘woke’ is dead

15.01.2025 10

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Sucking up to Trump and his coterie of billionaires will not leave us on the right side of history

Some of us are old enough to remember the regular edgy inquiries 10 years ago as to why this paper was so damned preoccupied by the activities of...

08.01.2025 10

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Predictions? It’s difficult to do anything but peer fearfully around the corner into this new year

On New Year’s Day it should be possible to dredge up some inspiring thoughts about the year ahead. It’s difficult to do anything but peer fearfully...

01.01.2025 1

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Kathy Sheridan

The sanitised version of nativity story rings increasingly hollow

It’s a year since the Ross Lake House Hotel in west Galway was set ablaze, nine days before Christmas. A year since an elected county councillor...

18.12.2024 20

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Leo Varadkar is right: basic maths should not flummox a minister or any of us

Leo Varadkar was probably delivering the eye-popping news that a lot of policymakers do not understand things like percentages, medians and means...

11.12.2024 10

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Kathy Sheridan

In a new Dáil once again dominated by men, three women could lead the Opposition

Images of women from election 2024 are destined to show up repeatedly on Reeling in the Years. Holly Cairns’s leadership of a hugely successful...

04.12.2024 4

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Kathy Sheridan

A dull election campaign failed to shake apathetic electorate out of its slumber

Does it matter if Simon Harris or Mary Lou McDonald dance a cringey jig in a gift shop or if Micheál Martin climbs awkwardly onto a buffalo on a...

27.11.2024 10

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Kathy Sheridan

Angry flea circus buzzing around ‘woke’ Helen McEntee goes beyond the usual political sniping

In fairness to James Browne, Fianna Fáil’s Minister of State at the Department of Justice, he did not say that his boss, Helen McEntee, had been...

20.11.2024 5

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Kathy Sheridan

‘Your body. My choice.’ A phrase that chills women to the bone

The legitimate agitation about the direction of young men and boys found its apotheosis in the hours after Donald Trump’s re-election. In a segment...

13.11.2024 4

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Kathy Sheridan

I am nauseously optimistic about the chances of a Kamala Harris victory

This column is being written early on Tuesday, hours before the US polls open, but I am “nauseously optimistic” about Kamala Harris, as Democrat...

05.11.2024 3

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Kathy Sheridan

Donald Trump’s apparent misfires are part of a sinister strategy

It’s just a few weeks since a young professional at a noisy party tried to explain why a huge swathe of Americans will vote for Donald Trump. Had I...

30.10.2024 10

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Heather Humphreys defies old line about all political lives ending in failure

Vox pops rarely produce anything useful, which is hardly surprising. They mainly entail a young reporter dashing around a street or two not far...

23.10.2024 2

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Kathy Sheridan

Don’t write off Gráinne Seoige. The original celebrity candidate was Jack Lynch

Celebrity candidates are back in the news, raising the old question of what precisely constitutes such a creature. Handy shorthand for anyone who’s...

16.10.2024 10

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Kathy Sheridan

Child benefit works as intended - and not just by buying votes for politicians

There is always an echo. Twenty-two years ago on a comically relaxed election canvass in a north Kildare housing estate, a laughing young mother...

09.10.2024 20

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Kathy Sheridan

Leo Varadkar could learn something from Jimmy Carter about how to retire

Very soon – probably around November 15th – hordes of stir-crazy politicians will be barrelling out of Leinster House like store cattle liberated...

02.10.2024 4

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Kathy Sheridan

US media must stop ‘sanewashing’ Trump’s deranged speeches

The term sanewashing has entered the terminology of the US presidential race, and not before time. A portmanteau of “sane” and “whitewashing”, it...

11.09.2024 5

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Kathy Sheridan

Dry your eyes Oasis fans, there’s no such thing as a gig emergency

It’s poignant to watch middle-aged Oasis fans railing about greedy ticket pricing when raging Swifties turned a Ticketmaster website debacle a...

04.09.2024 3

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Kathy Sheridan

Netanyahu has distracted the world’s attention from countless other warmongering thugs

Among the many tragedies of Gaza is how it has consumed the bandwidth of activists and protesters in the West. In many ways they’ve done their job,...

28.08.2024 4

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Kathy Sheridan

Donald Trump doesn’t know how to compete against Kamala Harris

A reliable way of staying relevant is to rail at something or someone a lot of other people admire. A jibe at Simon Harris’s phenomenal energy or...

21.08.2024 8

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Kathy Sheridan

Post-Olympics comedown can leave athletes feeling exhausted, empty and aimless

The most boring interviews in recent times have involved tennis legend and renowned gentleman Roger Federer. He talks about the primacy of shot...

14.08.2024 6

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Kathy Sheridan

Laws on wearing masks are just one of the difficult balancing acts to come

If the politics of public face-masking was fraught in pandemic times, watch what happens next. Back then the “freedom” boys swaggered through...

07.08.2024 2

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Kathy Sheridan

Was the Olympics ceremony backlash more about the drag artists than the Last Supper?

Back in 2012 an Irish friend volunteering at the London Olympics rang after witnessing the opening ceremony rehearsal. Watch it, he said, there’s...

31.07.2024 3

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Kathy Sheridan

US politicians are now realising that rhetoric can inspire violence

Saturday’s shooting was not “un-American”. Gun violence and mass killing followed by thoughts and prayers and Republican resistance to gun...

17.07.2024 3

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Kathy Sheridan