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How one woman is rescuing migrant workers trapped in Lebanon’s abusive kafala system

Lebanon’s kafala system traps migrant workers in abuse and exploitation — one woman is risking everything to change that

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Colin Sheridan: How a Harlem-born intellectual influenced a generation in Ireland through television

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Colin Sheridan: Trump's 'honesty' is immediately cancelled out by his deviousness

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Colin Sheridan: Who is MrBeast? The YouTube mogul captivating, and profiting from, your kids

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Colin Sheridan: We need a national tree strategy

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Colin Sheridan: Michael D Higgins' record as an advocate for human rights is unimpeachable

Taoiseach visit to Naas

S Colin Sheridan: Political leaders must reclaim high ground in a moral vacuum

Muddying the waters to make them seem deep — this seems to be what a lot of Irish politics is about right now

Sat, 18 Jan, 2025

Elon Musk

Colin Sheridan: Donald Trump’s ego our only hope that Musk won't do more damage

Since dumping at least $250m into Donald Trump’s campaign, Musk has become arm candy for the president-elect, who is set to be inaugurated next week, writes Colin Sheridan

Sat, 11 Jan, 2025

Colin Sheridan: Woke? Try seeing the world from a child’s view

S Colin Sheridan: Woke? Try seeing the world from a child’s view

There’s an argument that official Ireland — our governments and legislature — has decided we will be the First Woke Nation

Sat, 04 Jan, 2025

Technology Stock

Colin Sheridan: In pursuit of progress, not perfection

I reckon we all spend these few days of pensive purgatory doing the same thing. Reflecting. Ruminating. Reorganising our minds

Sat, 28 Dec, 2024

Colin Sheridan: A homecoming like no other for Syrians

Colin Sheridan: A homecoming like no other for Syrians

The memory of a poignant Christmas ad has resonated even more this year

Sat, 21 Dec, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Harris, Day-Lewis, Farrell? Make way for Mescal's moment

Colin Sheridan: Harris, Day-Lewis, Farrell? Make way for Mescal's moment

What distinguishes Paul Mescal from all the other great Irish actors?

Fri, 13 Dec, 2024

Ai technology, Artificial Intelligence. Let artificial intelligence help create what you want, Future technology concept.

Colin Sheridan: AI is a crutch that our kids don't need

Colin Sheridan reacts to the news this week that Leaving Cert students will be able to use artificial intelligence tools when preparing research projects from next year

Sat, 07 Dec, 2024

‘My Message to the next Dail’ Podcast: Colin Sheridan on resolving the middle east crisis

‘My Message to the next Dail’ Podcast: Colin Sheridan on resolving the middle east crisis

In this episode Colin Sheridan – Irish Examiner writer and former member of the Irish Defence Forces - sets out what he feels needs to be done by the next government, whoever they may be, to help resolve the growing crisis in the middle east.

Listen | Sun, 24 Nov, 2024

Milken Institute's Global Conference Held In Beverly Hills

Colin Sheridan: I'm just not ready to abandon X — yet

Being active on X is not an endorsement of Elon Musk's ownership, but it still seems to reward his grotesque neo-capitalist megalomania. Even so, I’m just not ready to leave

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

Strictly Come Dancing 2024

Colin Sheridan: TV rituals shouldn’t be forgotten

It felt good when my two children recently took it upon themselves to make an appointment with their granny to start watching 'Strictly Come Dancing' on a Saturday and Sunday night

Sat, 16 Nov, 2024

Colin Sheridan: A letter to all my friends who tell me to feel happy

Colin Sheridan: A letter to all my friends who tell me to feel happy

Writing about the genocide taking place in Palestine seems the most obvious thing in the world to do. That other people do not think so confounds and depresses me

Thu, 14 Nov, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Little sympathy for our reliance on the US dollar

Colin Sheridan: Little sympathy for our reliance on the US dollar

By virtue of our decades-long subservience, we have become utterly beholden to America

Sat, 09 Nov, 2024

Royal Tour of Australia and Samoa - Day Six

Colin Sheridan: Heavy the head that wears the crown

Monarchs, even disinterested ones, are prone to being told exactly what they want to hear

Sat, 26 Oct, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Inevitable slaughter follows every accusation made by Israel

Colin Sheridan: Inevitable slaughter follows every accusation made by Israel

Imagine a medic trying to access children under rubble, with no light or electricity to guide you? Israel bombs in the dead of night for that very reason

Wed, 23 Oct, 2024

Film - 'The Magic Box' - London

Colin Sheridan: Suddenly, from nowhere, a singer and a song cut through the despair

Broken by the horrors beamed onto my phone, that feeling was unexpectedly upended by a clip of Glynis Johns looking directly into camera and singing a song I knew but couldn't place...

Sat, 19 Oct, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu

Colin Sheridan: Netanyahu's 'war' has killed tens of thousands. He'll hardly balk at a few peacekeepers

World leaders have not made Benjamin Netanyahu take even one step back in his quest for an ethnically-cleansed Palestine

Mon, 14 Oct, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Ireland's peacekeepers have a job to do in Lebanon. And do it they will

Colin Sheridan: Ireland's peacekeepers have a job to do in Lebanon. And do it they will

To understand why Ireland's contributions to the UN, and peacekeeping in Lebanon in particular, are so valuable, we must acknowledge our roles as outliers in the international community

Tue, 08 Oct, 2024

Conor McGregor file photo

S Colin Sheridan: Conor McGregor's Arsenal cameo shows toxic men get away with it

McGregor is vying with Andrew Tate for chairmanship of a club that swears allegiance to being an absolute eejit

Sun, 06 Oct, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Lip service won't save a single Palestinian life

S Colin Sheridan: Lip service won't save a single Palestinian life

Under the cover of self defence, Benjamin Netanyahu's IDF are effectively carrying out an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Yet we sit here and listen as he addresses the UN General Assembly

Sat, 28 Sep, 2024

‘The Ploughing’ is a celebration of all that is good in farming and agriculture

‘The Ploughing’ is a celebration of all that is good in farming and agriculture

At the 2024 Ploughing Championships, everyone seemed happy, save for the welly salesmen, and even they could content themselves with a 99. What is rare, is indeed very, very wonderful

Fri, 20 Sep, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Go and see Hamilton with eyes wide open

Colin Sheridan: Go and see Hamilton with eyes wide open

Trust me, this could be a show about the Lehman brothers' selling sub-prime mortgages, and, such is the power of the experience, you’d come out rooting for them

Fri, 20 Sep, 2024

Pedro Almodovar

S Colin Sheridan: Is there anything that deserves a seventeen-minute standing ovation?

Last week at the Venice Film Festival Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film The Room Next Door received a standing ovation that lasted seventeen minutes

Sat, 14 Sep, 2024

Colin Sheridan: What stops journalists from speaking up about fellow professionals being targeted

S Colin Sheridan: What stops journalists from speaking up about fellow professionals being targeted

Earlier this year, Ismail Al-Ghoul, a 27-year-old Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed in an Israeli strike. Colin Sheridan wonders what prevents so many fellow journalists from speaking up about fellow professionals being targeted, intimidated, injured, and killed in such horrific fashion

Sun, 04 Aug, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Romantic America is dead and gone

S Colin Sheridan: Romantic America is dead and gone

THERE’S a scene in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon scans the bookshelves of the therapist he is forced by court order to see. “You people baffle me,” he says, aghast at the conformist propaganda displayed before him.

Sat, 27 Jul, 2024

The Graham Norton Show - London

S Colin Sheridan: Why actor Rob Delaney’s my role model

Delaney is one of the industry’s good guys and a good example for those of us trying to stay the hell out of our own way, and get on with it all

Sat, 13 Jul, 2024

Colin Sheridan: The truth about cats and demagogues

S Colin Sheridan: The truth about cats and demagogues

alley cats should be left out of presidential insults — they have more honour and emotional intelligence in their left paw than the candidates have in their entire campaign teams

Sat, 29 Jun, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Where's all the fuss about Juneteenth?

Colin Sheridan: Where's all the fuss about Juneteenth?

“This spooky thing called slavery happened and my entire ethnic identity was erased. ” Earn, (played by Donald Glover), Juneteenth, Atlanta We’ve all been there. That party you don’t want to go to, but one of you feel you must.

Sat, 22 Jun, 2024

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT

‘I whispered in her ear, asking her to tell my sister, my mother, I love them’: A letter from Gaza

You have seen the photo. It's Samia al-Atrash cradling the body of her niece Massah after she and her family died in an Israeli attack on Rafah. Now, Samia speaks about life and death in Gaza

Tue, 18 Jun, 2024

Athletes Return from European Athletics Championships

S Colin Sheridan: From the sublime to ridiculous and back again

Yes, it was a week that swung from the sublime to the absolute ridiculous and back again, from excellence on the track, to the undignified hoisting of councillors in count centres

Sat, 15 Jun, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Bilderberg's Chatham House Rule may apply

S Colin Sheridan: Bilderberg's Chatham House Rule may apply

Your crummy little meeting doesn’t mean diddly squat unless it’s conducted under a rule. Preferably the Chatham House Rule

Sat, 08 Jun, 2024

76th Cannes Film Festival

S Colin Sheridan: Why AI mess would make you long for the good old days

This past week saw three utterly depressing, remarkably apposite examples of AI gone bad

Sat, 25 May, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Harrowing memory of atrocity on our streets put in stark comparison to Gaza horror

S Colin Sheridan: Harrowing memory of atrocity on our streets put in stark comparison to Gaza horror

The 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings took place this week, with survivors and witnesses describing the still harrowing aftermath of the explosions. Now just consider that the people of Gaza are going through five-times the equivalent of the Dublin bombing every day for the last 224 days.

Sat, 18 May, 2024

Anti immigration protest

S Colin Sheridan: Weaponised ignorance is designed to capitalise on societal discontent

“I love living in Ireland, I have loved living in Britain, but when I have visited Belgium or Thailand or Slovenia or the United States, I have thought it would be nice to live there, too.

Sat, 11 May, 2024

Pres cand Jack Kennedy conferring head-to-head w his brot

S Colin Sheridan: Kennedys are to blame for photo-ops

We should probably blame the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby. The silhouette of the brothers on opposing couches, Jack with left hand raised to chin, Bobby leaning in to listen, is one of the most iconic photos of the last century.

Sat, 13 Apr, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Resurrection greatest story ever told, whether you believe or not

S Colin Sheridan: Resurrection greatest story ever told, whether you believe or not

While many of us claim to be Roman Catholic, church attendance has plummeted and the Easter story is a casualty of the Church's very brutal folly

Sat, 30 Mar, 2024

UN Forum on the Question of Palestine: 70 Years after 1948 Lessons to Achieve a Sustainable Peace

Gaza rhetoric is meaningless when there is zero action

To the tens of thousands of people who follow Francesca Albanese in academia and on social media, the Italian international lawyer and scholar is nothing short of a force of nature.

Mon, 25 Mar, 2024

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S Colin Sheridan: Obsessing over WhatsApp 'ticks' while waiting to hear from Gaza

Anybody who’s ever experienced a loved one caught up in a “world event,” will understand all too well the pros and cons of modern communicative technology

Sat, 23 Mar, 2024

Conservative Party Conference 2023

S Colin Sheridan: The British empire is dying a slow death

You’re probably not aware there is a university in London called SOAS, or the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Sat, 16 Mar, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Debt to mothers will take generations to repay

S Colin Sheridan: Debt to mothers will take generations to repay

Mother and baby home story a timely reminder of the horror that was perpetrated just over the wall in the towns and villages across Ireland

Sat, 09 Mar, 2024

IRELAND-US-DIPLOMACY-POLITICS

S Colin Sheridan: Biden's approach to Gaza is morally bankrupt

It’s not even a year since US President Joe Biden stood on the banks of the river Moy and — as a self-proclaimed Son of Ballina — muttered the mother of all crowd pleasers “Oh, one more thing: Mayo for Sam!” It didn’t really matter what went before, ...

Sat, 10 Feb, 2024

Electric car power charging, Charging technology, Clean energy filling technology.

Letters to the Editor: We're glad we prevailed over EV anxiety

One reader responds to Colin Sheridan's column about electric vehicles, while others consider issues including social media, the forthcoming referenda, and power-sharing in the North

Wed, 07 Feb, 2024

Standard of Irish writing 'higher than it’s ever been': Why books will outlive us all

S Standard of Irish writing 'higher than it’s ever been': Why books will outlive us all

Despite predictions of their imminent demise, many humble bookshops are learning to survive and thrive, writes Colin Sheridan

Sat, 27 Jan, 2024

Good Friday Agreement

Colin Sheridan: You stay classy, Bryan Dobson

The inimitable anchorman is stepping down, one of a dying breed of anchors who delivered the news, without becoming it

Sat, 27 Jan, 2024

TV Lewis 3

S Colin Sheridan: Looking back on... 'Homeland'

TV show 'Homeland' packed an incredible punch, writes Colin Sheridan

Sat, 20 Jan, 2024