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...

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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

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Anti-woke Ivan Yates must have seemed the obvious choice to toughen Jim Gavin up

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Where are the patriots protesting when Irish men are the ones carrying out assaults?

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No, Maria Steen wasn’t robbed and the election isn’t rigged

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Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

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Catherine Connolly should ask Jim Gavin what a smear campaign looks like

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Threats to Simon Harris are a red alert for Irish society

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Tricolour fetishists take inspiration from England. The irony doesn’t end there

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Harvey Morrison Sherratt’s parents are a politician’s nightmare: articulate, calm, grieving

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Tony Holohan’s reluctance to admit mistakes sits badly with the national mood

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Why would 35-year-old CEO Gareth Sheridan want to be entombed in the Áras for seven years?

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Refusing to see the links between domestic violence and wider society amount to reckless denial

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Is Brigitte Macron wise to sue a right-wing podcaster over crackpot claims she was born a man?

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Whether the abuse happens in Rathfarnham or west Belfast, the story is the same

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Plenty of people will happily live in a smaller, darker unit if the price is right

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Breaking down in tears at the scene was mortifying. It was also the only sane response

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Kneecap owe Keir Starmer, the BBC and Helen from Wales a thank you

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Should influencers and politicians share photographs of their children online?

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So far nobody wants the Presidency and its quarter-of-a-million euro salary. Why?

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Remembering Housewife of the Year, deadbeat husbands and patronising Gay Byrne

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If Gerry Adams wanted to put manners on the BBC, why not do it in Belfast?

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I have nothing against cycling, but spare me from speeding cyclists on country paths

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Skorts issue is about policing women. The fuss around Kim Kardashian’s courtroom garb is not

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Who felt informed enough in those first few days to call Alan Hawe a cold-blooded murderer?

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

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Should commuters have to put up with interminable phone conversations, bursts of TikTok and blaring music?

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Pope Francis was an equal opportunities thorn in the side

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Conor McGregor is the weirdest objection yet to plans for an elected Dublin mayor

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Don’t blame all Americans for Donald Trump

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Ireland’s parliamentary standards have been trashed in recent weeks

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Healthy over-70s had no idea they were old until the order came to ‘cocoon’

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Why women are having fewer babies, in Ireland and worldwide

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Nathan McDonnell’s carry-on-as-normal behaviour suggested a profound dissociation from the €32m of crystal meth in his yard

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Kathy Sheridan: Zelenskiy embodies the sacrifice of his people

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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