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 3

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 40

Kathy Sheridan

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 20

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 6

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

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

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 5

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 4

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

Kathy Sheridan

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 3

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

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 30

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 5

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 6

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‘Woke’ keeps coming up in elections but it is a meaningless insult

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Why women are having fewer babies, in Ireland and worldwide

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Ten people died in a furnace of twisted metal in Creeslough. Now the owner wants to build another filling station

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What we need now is a Tony Holohan for housing

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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The sanitised version of nativity story rings increasingly hollow

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