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.
[1] Her father Joe Sheridan[2] 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.
[3] In 2012, she wrote about tens of thousands of Irish women who travelled abroad for their abortions.