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Kathy Sheridan

Ireland

Columnist at Irish Times

Columnist with The Irish Times. Co-host @ITWomensPodcast. @[email protected]

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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Kathy Sheridan
Kathy Sheridan @kathysheridanIT
11 Jun 25

RT @atrupar: GRAHAM: Is Putin gonna stop in Ukraine? HEGSETH: Remains to be seen GRAHAM: Well, he says he's not. This is the '30s all ove…

Kathy Sheridan
Kathy Sheridan @kathysheridanIT
11 Jun 25

RT @JimmySecUK: This will be news to the 457 British service personnel that died in Afghanistan supporting our American "allies".

Kathy Sheridan
Kathy Sheridan @kathysheridanIT
11 Jun 25

RT @anangbhai: RIP Brian Wilson. Sharing BBC Music’s tribute to The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” https://t.co/P6gU8GlafV