
Kathy Sheridan
Columnist at Irish Times
Co-Host at The Women's Podcast
Columnist with The Irish Times. Co-host @ITWomensPodcast. @[email protected]
Articles
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
It is already midsummer, yet no presidential candidate has declared for an election which is about four months away (unless you count Conor McGregor and Peter Casey). Is this a crisis? So far, the prospect of a rather nice job – quarter-of-a-million euro salary, fully staffed des res and front-of-house seats everywhere accompanied by standing ovations – has been marked by expressions of no or fleeting interest.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
For many of us who lived through the era covered by the recent Housewife of the Year documentary, the viewing was always going to trigger a dull, throat-constricting ache. A film about a 30-year old television show that ran for just 10 years would provoke less predictable responses in younger viewers. Some sat down to sneer but left it deeply unsettled.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
The Gerry Adams libel case against the BBC may end up costing the organisation about two to three years’ worth of Gary Lineker’s salary and a ton of grief. A High Court judge yesterday directed the BBC to pay €50,000 damages, plus €250,000 legal costs to Adams, pending a possible appeal by the broadcaster.
Kathy Sheridan: I have nothing against cycling, but spare me from speeding cyclists on country paths
1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
It’s five years now since the great Covid influx of non-locals to our local canal walk, and you might still happen upon the occasional conversation about visitor resistance to a friendly nod. But conversations these days are more likely to be about the cyclists who regularly mistake the narrow towpath for a speedway. Let’s just agree at the outset that cycling can be challenging and deadly.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
At first glance Nick Bradshaw’s image is boring. It captures the back of a male referee in prematch discussion between the female captains of the Kilkenny and Dublin camogie teams. But the context, as Denis Walsh notes, is that the person in the middle wearing shorts is telling two other people in shorts that they must not wear shorts.
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