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
Back in the mists of 2004 the Dublin Chamber of Commerce had a vision. They published it in a brochure and set it in the far-off year of 2020 in which happy Dubliners reflected on a triumphant seven years for the first directly elected “mayor of Greater Dublin”, a creature represented as a youngish Dub whose CV in no other way resembled Conor McGregor’s.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
My love affair with America began at 19 when a missionary uncle took joy in welcoming stray young relatives who pitched up on his Los Angeles doorstep. I still recall our first drive up the sun-drenched coast to San Francisco, wondering why Americans bothered to schlep to Ireland when they had such staggering natural majesty on their own doorstep.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
The exit of Primark‘s boss on Monday following an investigation into his behaviour towards a woman “in a social environment” was swift and clinical. Paul Marchant was a successful chief executive of 16 years’ standing and Primark (trading here as Penneys) accounts for roughly half of Associated British Foods’ profits, yet ABF’s chief executive George Weston addressed the problem in terms of culture. “Colleagues and others must be treated with respect and dignity.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
“Not until my brother, a kind man in his early 60s, rang the other day and offered to collect my shopping did I realise I was old.” That line from writer Peter Cunningham about cocooning back in the charged early days of Covid distilled a certain truth. “I don’t see myself as old. But now it’s different.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Kathy Sheridan
International Women’s Day was not just about celebrating women. It was also a nudge to look at the big picture. And that picture is confusing. Global fertility rates are plunging, singledom rates are rising, and violent pornography is a life-threatening plague. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has discovered the “sweet spot” for staff productivity: it’s a 60-hour week. Some companies are offering to pay for woman staff’s egg-freezing plans while also demanding they spend more time in the office.
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