Sabina Higgins is as publicly embedded in this 12-year presidency as her husbandAs a partner, name and personality, Sabina Higgins is as publicly embedded in this 12-year presidency as her husbandWed Aug 03 2022 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Monkeypox trajectory is starting to seem unsettlingly familiarThe pain, fear and isolation suffered by gay and bisexual men for months is now an urgent global concernWed Jul 27 2022 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Trump lickspittles are being lionised by January 6th hearings Turning of acolytes who should have known better and ended up simply doing their duty is a deliberate strategyWed Jul 20 2022 - 00:00
Judging by the prolific coughers on my flight, it’s time to put the masks back onNever mind missing your flight, what about catching Covid?Wed Jul 13 2022 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Across the world, the patriarchy is fighting backAfter 20 years of living their lives as autonomous human beings, few Afghan women anticipated being abandoned to the mercies of the Taliban again.Wed Jul 06 2022 - 00:00
Everything’s possible when extremists capture a mainstream party’s agendaIn a functioning democracy, the January 6th hearings would led to a reset of public values and moralityWed Jun 29 2022 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Treatment at family funeral showed how Catholic Church just keeps scoring own goals A recent attempt to deliver a eulogy at a funeral underlines the church’s silly own goalsWed Jun 22 2022 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Just who exactly is the real Liz Truss?New versions of politicians have blind-sided everyone in head-melting shiftsWed Jun 15 2022 - 05:00
Philip Boucher-Hayes may be annoying but it doesn’t make him wrongJournalist’s comments that flying is a privilege and bad for the environment provoked a backlashWed Jun 01 2022 - 05:00
Fake news trolls have persecuted innocent McCanns for 15 yearsWrong assumptions resulted in casual public destruction of grieving parentsWed May 25 2022 - 00:24
Kathy Sheridan: Maternity hospital debate hijacked by fear and loathingHaving a balanced view on the issues is not tolerated in this toxic environmentWed May 18 2022 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Naomi Long’s success outshines Michelle O’Neill’sAssembly election seismic for another reason: resilience of women politiciansWed May 11 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Evangelical hypocrisy behind US fight against abortion rightsAt the time of the Roe v Wade ruling in 1973, influential evangelicals were more concerned with maintaining racial segregationWed May 04 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Only the Russians themselves can bring about regime changeThat agonising generational task cannot be undertaken by Nato or UkrainiansWed Mar 30 2022 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: It was Nato bombers and tanks that finally stopped the war in KosovoWe have been here before with Serbian tyrant Slobodan Milosevic and KosovoWed Mar 23 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Talking out of both sides of our mouth on Russian oilThere is a disconnect between tearful rhetoric about Ukraine and sacrifices this might requireWed Mar 16 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Oligarchs have been hiding in plain sight all alongTwitter account tracking movements of those close to Putin arouses healthy curiosityWed Mar 09 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Cometh the hour, cometh ZelenskiyUkraine president has morphed into one of the most unlikely wartime leaders in historyWed Mar 02 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Brussels bubble misses the point on Phil Hogan’s resignationLengthy Libération interview with former EU commissioner left out pertinent detailsWed Feb 23 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Tide of goodwill towards the restaurant sector may soon turnInexplicably high prices, unhappy staff and opaque service charge will take their tollWed Feb 16 2022 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Real problem for Brexiteers is that Boris trolley is crashing in publicWhy is Johnson’s woke wife blamed for Tory woes?Wed Feb 09 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Enough of the confusion. Hold weekly televised briefings on the housing crisisPressure on parents to give up their hard-earned peace is part of the social tapestry nowWed Feb 02 2022 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Negative stereotyping of older people can knock several years off a lifeCovid has exposed insidious ageism in society that has serious implicationsWed Jan 26 2022 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Misogyny is the soup in which boys are raisedNo one one is suggesting laddish banter inevitably leads to murder – it’s more complexWed Jan 19 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Will the real Sinn Féin please stand up?Party members cannot continue to deny legitimacy of the State SF is expected to governWed Jan 12 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Don’t Look Up opens odd new flank in the culture warsThose who didn’t think the film was great were assumed to have missed the point by many who didWed Jan 05 2022 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Finland’s clubbing PM would not last long in IrelandSanna Marin faced a very Finnish type of reasoned backlash when caught outWed Dec 15 2021 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Wallace and Daly are a national embarrassmentSupport for anti-vaccine MEP Cristian Terhes is the latest odd turn in their opaque politicsWed Dec 08 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: Complaints over vaccine queues a sad reflection on entitled, negative publicFirst-world vaccine privilege is taken for grantedWed Dec 01 2021 - 05:00
Kathy Sheridan: Can’t stand Garth Brooks? The best cure is to just let it goIreland is once again in the grip of GB fever – best cure is to just take a chill pillWed Nov 24 2021 - 02:00
Good day for FitzPatrick and Quinn’s cheerleaders to reflectColluders enabled star-crossed titans of Celtic Tiger take such enormous gamblesWed Nov 17 2021 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Jeffrey Donaldson, Owen Paterson are latest victims of political amnesiaAmnesia is a debilitating side effect of BrexitWed Nov 10 2021 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Protesting works as we reach peak climate anxietyPublic pressure has already resulted in substantial levels of movementWed Nov 03 2021 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Wealthy Dublin calling local property tax ‘unfair’ is a bit richDublin local authorities have sidestepped the great ‘unfairness’ of helping poorer regionsWed Oct 27 2021 - 00:00
Kathy Sheridan: Culture of abuse on social media is malignOur politicians already talk about daily abuse, intimidation and physical threatsWed Oct 20 2021 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan: How will EU look if UK's strutting desperation for a win is rewarded again?UK negotiator David Frost is running out of time, and Brussels is running out of patienceWed Oct 13 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: We have the right to know who is obstructing desperately needed SláintecareGive Robert Watt a chance to do the seemingly impossible and fix this planWed Oct 06 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: In Britain, the B-word is the biggest taboo of allThe chaos Britain has visited upon itself is not about Brexit, you see – not at allWed Sept 29 2021 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Armagh invite controversy reveals bafflingly poor planningPresident should have anticipated likely response to decision not to attend Armagh serviceWed Sept 22 2021 - 01:00
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
