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. Her father Joe Sheridan 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. In 2012, she wrote about tens of thousands of Irish women who travelled abroad for their abortions. Book References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish women journalists The Irish Times people 21st-century Irish journalists