Kathy Sheridan: Labour pains in being a small party in Government‘It’s no fun being a green, blue or pinkish small party with a brief to save the people’Wed Mar 04 2015 - 07:56
Gemma Dwyer recalls life with husband, now murder accusedDwyers celebrated their birthdays on day Elaine O’Hara’s remains were foundWed Feb 25 2015 - 21:53
Kathy Sheridan: Teenage ‘jihadi brides’ story triggers every parent’s nightmare‘When I was young and stupid I was young and stupid. Luckily, I have managed to locate the diary and kill it’Wed Feb 25 2015 - 07:33
Kathy Sheridan: State poised to boost developers so the merry dance could begin again‘The State – in a hurry to boost housing supply – is planning to loan money to builders at low rates to pay for the infrastructure around the housing estates they build’Wed Feb 18 2015 - 12:09
Kathy Sheridan: Fifty Shades of Grey – all tied up in a Cinderella package‘Anyone old enough to remember the Mills & Boon 64-pagers will recognise the formula’Wed Feb 11 2015 - 00:02
Kathy Sheridan: Why Operation Transformation should ditch the Lycra‘ Viewers are left under no illusion; reinventing your life and changing your lifestyle is not easy’Wed Feb 04 2015 - 12:01
Kathy Sheridan: So could we have our own Syriza, pleaseIs there any new party, movement or alliance in Ireland with Syriza’s potential?Wed Jan 28 2015 - 12:00
Who is Leo Varadkar?Minister for Health Leo Varadkar is an unusual politician. He has a high IQ and a small ego. He’s a ‘bit odd’ socially and seldom works a room. He’s a straight talker and a ‘crap liar’. And, of course . . .Sat Jan 24 2015 - 02:00
Kathy Sheridan: Why the banking inquiry needs the truth about bankers’ bonuses‘The Davos summit will welcome back many of the same movers and shakers whose reckless exuberance virtually destroyed lives and economies across the globe’Wed Jan 21 2015 - 12:01
How wife-swappin’ sodomites won the right to remarry1995 referendum that gave separated people the right to divorce was barely carriedMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Kathy Sheridan – Nous sommes Charlie Hebdo: souls in need of searchingUniversal yearning to find meaning in barbarityWed Jan 14 2015 - 12:44
Charlie’s devils: how Haughey era poisonous culture lives on‘The RTÉ series is described as “fascinating”. But Charlie Haughey’s corrupt, thuggish little power play will always elicit other adjectives that begin with an emphatic F’Wed Jan 07 2015 - 12:01
Review of 2014: The year the citizens brokeFrom the Rehab controversy to the John McNulty affair and the Irish Water debacle, the people of Ireland finally had enoughSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Will Michael Fitzmaurice’s political plan shake up localism?‘In its ideal manifestation, localism is a driver of practical, community activism. Its flipside however, can be a reckless indifference to the bigger picture’Wed Dec 17 2014 - 12:01
The water charges fiasco: a lesson in how not to do thingsSocial enterprise, civil disobedience and a more accountable political system could help Ireland work better. But for starters, let’s learn some lessons from the water-charge shamblesSat Dec 13 2014 - 06:00
No matter how many water protesters turn out in Dublin, complex problems will remain‘If the protests are about something other than water – as the leaders are insisting now – why hijack World Human Rights Day, fronted by the banners of an organisation called Right2Water?’Wed Dec 10 2014 - 16:44
Left, right – what do labels matter when a homeless man dies on a freezing night?‘Tonight, among even those with roofs over their heads, there will be people of every class – whatever that means – too fearful to turn on the heating’Wed Dec 03 2014 - 12:13
Ex-Ireland and Lions outhalf Jack Kyle remembered at serviceWillie John McBride: ‘He was just one of the great men of this world, I am just proud I had him as a friend’Tue Dec 02 2014 - 18:24
To whom do we entrust this precious new politics of ours?Electorate should be mindful of its part in electing problem politicians of the pastWed Nov 26 2014 - 05:20
Love/Hate, fantasy/disgust: Telling the grim truth about prostitutionOpinion: ‘Liberals might need to put clear, blue water between ourselves, libertarians and laissez-faire monetarism; where we need to question out loud the notion that everything “freely chosen” can be commodified’Wed Nov 19 2014 - 12:01
What do Gerry Adams, Joe Kernen and Russell Brand have in common?Opinion: No shame in not knowing the answer - the shame is in not admitting itWed Nov 12 2014 - 00:00
Minister with a mission to deliverPractical, tireless, sharp and fast-moving, Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald is showing she has a flair for the feasibleSat Nov 01 2014 - 01:00
Ebola: how faith, hope and science play their partOpinion: When Nina Pham mentioned God, the keyboard warriors bestirred themselves just long enough to read the prayer headlineWed Oct 29 2014 - 12:01
Des O’Malley: ‘I didn’t have a thick enough skin’After more than 10 years of writing, former Progressive Democrats leader Des O’Malley has published his autobiography. Few escape the ‘unpleasantness’ it dredges up, from the ‘self-indulgent’ Charlie McCreevy and ‘impetuous’ Michael McDowell to the ‘pointless’ Seanad – and even O’Malley himselfSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00
Can Oscar Pistorius reinvent himself after his prison term? Will the public let him?Opinion: In 10 months’ time, he will be 28, probably fit enough and gritty enough to resume competitive runningWed Oct 22 2014 - 12:01
How Irish people want to dieIreland supposedly ‘does death well’. But a new survey suggests that it’s a modern taboo – and that end-of-life care in this country is far from perfectSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00
Amy Chua: Mother superiorChildren need inner strength to survive in a tough world, says‘Tiger Mother’ authorSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00
Has Roy Keane become an avatar for an angry, impotent, confused electorate?Opinion: Keane and Ferguson claim attention as water protests growWed Oct 15 2014 - 14:01
Tony O’Reilly’s Co Kildare home goes on market for €30mSale of Co Kildare property follows €22m court judgementThu Oct 09 2014 - 08:22
Tony O’Reilly’s Castlemartin estate for €30mThe 750-acre estate and stud farm goes on the market today, writes Kathy SheridanThu Oct 09 2014 - 00:00
Cronyism is at the heart of Irish societyOpinion: Is there an Irish person who has never sniffed cronyism while job-seeking?Wed Oct 08 2014 - 12:01
Taoiseach’s contempt for the Seanad clear since he tried to abolish it a year agoOpinion: The genie was well out of the bottle before the concession by Kenny that the Seanad seat targeted for a thoroughly humiliated John McNulty ‘should not be accepted in those circumstances’Thu Oct 02 2014 - 08:32
‘You could not get into Fortress Garda,’ says former GSOC commissionerBrady’s disillusionment with limitations of office prompted his decision not to seek reappointmentThu Oct 02 2014 - 01:00
Colm Tóibín: I start and I finishHe loves long nights, sing-songs and money but is deadly serious about his writing, his teaching and learning to live with his ‘demons’Sat Sept 27 2014 - 01:00
The prime of Prof Louise Richardson, the Irish president of St Andrews UniversityOn the same day as the Scottish referendum, a secret ballot at the Royal and Ancient golf club of St Andrews will decide on whether it will accept female members, including the president of neighbouring St Andrew’s university, Irishwoman Louise RichardsonSat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00
Longford meets Dublin 4 in remembering Albert ReynoldsPeople paid their respects to the late former taoiseach at Donnybrook churchMon Aug 25 2014 - 01:00
Longford man who brought razzmatazz to midlands IrelandWhile getting on with his countless other schemes he became a central figure in oursFri Aug 22 2014 - 01:00
Lissadell House: quiches at dawnLissadell is open to the public again. For the Walsh Cassidy family that means a summer of baking, gardening and building, but they wouldn’t have it any other way, writes Kathy SheridanSat Aug 02 2014 - 01:00
Who’s in favour of a three-day week?Opinion: In a 24/7 world, the notion of a nine to five business seems increasingly out-datedWed Jul 30 2014 - 12:01
Garth Brooks, we nearly didn’t miss youCountry music comes to sunburnt Dublin with Stetson and City music trailSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:01
Garth’s appeal eludes the arts elitesOpinion: The people who like popular entertainment pay their taxes tooWed Jul 16 2014 - 13:35
An American verdict: ‘There seem to be fewer assholes in Ireland’The Trip: ‘Bring on the leprechauns,’ says one of our group of North Americans mischievously as I join them for a tour of Cork and Kerry. They like it here, but they aren’t as wide-eyed about Ireland as we sometimes like to thinkMon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00
Rural areas pay price as Dublin recovers‘Maybe we should just start listening to each other in this tiny country’Wed Jul 09 2014 - 12:01
Adopted by working-class family and elevated with loveWith a mother who believed ferociously in her, Burton was not afraid to try anythingSat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
Moving beyond recrimination – but we’re not ready yetOpinion: ‘When the Taoiseach told EU leaders a few weeks ago that Irish families are “worn out”, he wasn’t just talking about water charges or property tax. It was always about fairness’Wed Jul 02 2014 - 12:01
Dublin on the wrong track with cycle route along north quaysOpinion: ‘Why would any sane adult “choose” to drive a car into the city unless there were pressing practical or health reasons for doing so?’Wed Jun 25 2014 - 12:01
Casting a fresh eye on the Tuam controversyOpinion: ‘Is it possible to ask for reflection without risking condemnation as a fellow-traveller?’Wed Jun 18 2014 - 12:01
The unsunny southeastBausch & Lomb is cutting jobs and wages in Waterford, a city already hit hard by unemployment, where ‘survival is the new success’Sat Jun 07 2014 - 01:00
Rise of the OthersIn last weekend’s elections, Independents, small alliances and anti-austerity groups were the big winners, polling more than 40 per cent in some areas. Was it a midterm protest vote or is the political party over?Sat May 31 2014 - 01:00
