Kathy Sheridan

{{Short description|Journalist for The Irish Times}}

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Kathy Sheridan is a journalist with The Irish Times.

She won the title of features writer at the National Newspapers of Ireland's Journalism Awards for 2011.{{cite news|url=http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-times-biggest-winner-at-national-newspaper-awards-265191-Oct2011/|title=Irish Times biggest winner at national newspaper awards|work=The Journal|date=27 October 2011|access-date=27 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302012025/http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-times-biggest-winner-at-national-newspaper-awards-265191-Oct2011/|archive-date=2 March 2015}}

Her father Joe Sheridan{{cite news|url=http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/local/book_gives_a_new_voice_to_longford_women_1_1947270|title=Book gives a new voice to Longford women|date=4 May 2007|work=Longford Leader|access-date=14 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302011911/http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/local-news/book-gives-a-new-voice-to-longford-women-1-1947270|archive-date=2 March 2015}} was an independent TD for Longford–Westmeath from 1961 to 1981. Her daughter, Mary-Kate, is a musician, best known as the lead singer in rock band Fight Like Apes.{{cite news|first=Nadine|last=O'Regan|title=Fighting Talk|newspaper=The Sunday Business Post|date=8 February 2009|url=http://nadineoregan.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/fight-like-apes-sbp-interview/ |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504154430/http://nadineoregan.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/fight-like-apes-sbp-interview/|archive-date=4 May 2014}}

In 2012, she wrote about tens of thousands of Irish women who travelled abroad for their abortions.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0324/1224313801571.html|title=Stories of abortion: by people who have been through it|work=The Irish Times|date=24 March 2012|access-date=24 March 2012|quote=Kathy Sheridan recently wrote about the tens of thousands of Irish women who have had abortions abroad...}}{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0225/1224312358012.html|title=Stories of abortion|work=The Irish Times|date=25 February 2012|access-date=25 February 2012}}