Róisín Ingle: 20 things I would put in a time capsule from 2020From a Normal People DVD to a face mask, these objects represent this bizarre yearWed Dec 30 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: It may be a black and white Christmas but there’s still magic in itI was standing in Aldi trying to remember the point of Christmas. My brain was tiredThu Dec 24 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: All I want for Christmas is a weighted blanketAdmittedly, 48 hours before Christmas is a bit late to drop hints about what I wantWed Dec 23 2020 - 05:00
‘Are you living your dreams through us?’ my daughter askedI may be a momager but I am a rubbish oneWed Dec 16 2020 - 07:56
Róisín Ingle: How are you? Three little words that hold more weight than everHow am I? I’m F.I.N.E. – f**ked up, insecure, neurotic and emotionalWed Dec 02 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Deck the feckin’ halls. That is an orderIn the absence of a vaccine, Christmas is the placebo that can get us to the end of 2020Wed Nov 25 2020 - 05:00
Hands off the Toy Show: Why the Grinch can’t steal our Late Late ChristmasThe Level 5 exit plan just can’t compete with the best television programme in the worldTue Nov 24 2020 - 15:00
Róisín Ingle: A tale of two Irelands on a Saturday night in November 2020Some drink on the streets ‘for their mental health’. Others stay home, judging themTue Nov 17 2020 - 05:00
Patrisha McLean: My ‘deeply controlling’ ex-husband Don McLeanHer 29-year marriage to the singer Don McLean ended after an incident in their home in 2016Sat Nov 14 2020 - 06:00
Amy Huberman: Covid? ‘It’s a sh*tshow, and there’s no other way to describe it’The star on criticism of her work, coping with lockdown and her ‘geriatric’ pregnancySat Nov 14 2020 - 00:00
Róisín Ingle: Lockdown strikes again – I’m thinking about getting a dogMaybe the part of me that is a dog person has just been packed awayWed Nov 11 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Kamala Harris’s words washed over me like a wave of reliefKamala Harris and Mary J Blige were in my head. For the first time ages, I felt truly happyMon Nov 09 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: The Covid stone. Wear it like a badge of prideMedical experts may not share my view, but this comfort food expert says go for itTue Nov 03 2020 - 09:52
Róisín Ingle: Five ways to find joy in a pandemic. Only one of them is illegalIf you’re feeling lonely or despondent at this time ... read onWed Oct 28 2020 - 07:23
Róisín Ingle: We’ve started new Lockdown Eve traditions. Like Christmas Eve, only with more dreadTo question Nphet feels unpatriotic. To not question doesn’t feel right eitherMon Oct 26 2020 - 07:22
Róisín Ingle: After seven months of this headwreck, what needs to be done feels harder than everAnd so we go from ‘Level Whatever You’re Having Yourself’ to ‘Level Déjà Vu’Tue Oct 20 2020 - 08:24
From the archives: ‘I can’t rest until I bring poor JoJo Dullard home’Roisin Ingle spoke in 1998 to Mary Phelan on her campaign to find her missing sisterMon Oct 19 2020 - 15:45
Kathleen Watkins: ‘Occasionally I find myself talking to Gay in my head’A year after her husband Gay Byrne’s death, the author knows everything is going to be alrightSat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I decided that morning to tear the complete arse out of the evening‘Pandapathy’ is afflicting many people I know. I’ve hit upon a solution . . . or twoWed Oct 14 2020 - 07:58
Róisín Ingle: For two hours, I forgot about the pandemic. Well, not completelyThe pandemic hovers over everything like a bad smell. You can’t hold your nose for longMon Oct 12 2020 - 06:00
Roxane Gay: ‘We need to be more accepting of the choices we make as women’The feminist writer on US leadership, JK Rowling and overcoming adversitySat Oct 10 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: The truth? This crisis has changed my life for the better in so many waysI keep it to myself mostly. The fact that, for us lucky ones, Covid restrictions are not painfulTue Oct 06 2020 - 05:30
Cecelia Ahern: ‘I don’t have small worries, I have big worries. Like the end of the world’The bestselling author on the upsides of lockdown, her new book and why she misses boxingSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: How to eat out in a pandemic. Don’t do what I didI sat out until I couldn’t feel my fingers and got a raging cold that is NOT CovidTue Sept 29 2020 - 05:00
Mary McAleese: ‘I’m a bit of an ’oul interrupter. That’s what I hope to be’The former president on criticising the church, life during lockdown – and her new memoirSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I hated those wearable ‘fitness yokes’. Now I’m one of those peopleI’m in a new phase of life, when I know exactly how many steps I’ve taken each dayWed Sept 23 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: We’re in a different pandemic place now. Nobody’s quoting Seamus Heaney any more‘Lockdown, The Sequel’ is just nowhere near as enjoyable as the originalMon Sept 21 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Dublin’s bike revolution isn’t a cyclist-vs-motorist battleBicycles – or ‘Freedom Machines’ – are having an excellent pandemic. I stand and rejoiceWed Sept 16 2020 - 05:00
Nick Hornby: ‘Lad’ culture was a ‘snotty reaction against feminism’The 1990s ‘lad lit’ writer has moved into the ‘richer’ territory of women’s livesTue Sept 15 2020 - 05:00
Jane Fonda: ‘The older I get, the more my wounds heal’As an octogenarian, the movie star is still trying to change the worldSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Why my mother will not be cocooning againHer new philosophy is to go about daily life as normal, while wearing a face maskWed Sept 09 2020 - 05:10
Róisín Ingle: The girls are going back to school. And we just took away their phonesThey were given the devices as a temporary measure. You can imagine the mourningWed Sept 02 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Working from home (no kids!) will be a relief. At firstFor many of us with school-age children, the next few weeks will represent a sort of respite periodWed Aug 26 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: We’re raging, sad, exhausted, fed-up, confused and uncertainThe worst might be yet to come, and there’s only so much we can take. If it’s okay to say thatMon Aug 24 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: My schoolfriend is turning 50. Urgh, just urghThere are fewer good years left ahead, by any calculation, than there are behindWed Aug 19 2020 - 00:00
Joyce Carol Oates and that repulsive foot photo: ‘The moral is, proper footwear!’Novelist’s shots of her horribly blistered instep have gone viral after a weekend-walk run-inMon Aug 17 2020 - 13:45
‘It was a survival-of-the-fittest thing. If everybody’s picking on another boy, you join in’Anthony Horowitz says he’d probably have been a horrible person without his writingMon Aug 17 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I’m menstruating as I write this. And I’m mad as all bloody hellWhy is everything to do with periods still embarrassing, offensive or ‘over-descriptive’?Sun Aug 02 2020 - 06:00
Kathleen MacMahon: ‘I think women writers are treated like mistresses’The author of Nothing But Blue Sky life after a loved one’s death and the curse of likable charactersSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Why this little bit of wood and plastic is just fantasticSome claim the ukulele is not an instrument, except maybe of torture. That’s just snobberyWed Jul 29 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: Spiceburgers are the Dublin falafel and only savages use paper napkinsThe things you learn and the things you remember when you are allowed be together againMon Jul 27 2020 - 06:00
John Boyne: ‘I am not a provocateur. I don’t seek to hurt people’Writer talks of novels, heartache, looming 50th, criticism, compassion and trans issuesSat Jul 25 2020 - 06:15
Róisín Ingle: You can stick your foreign holidays where the sun always shinesClare is the new Costa del Sol, sideways rain or sporadic shineWed Jul 22 2020 - 07:12
Sheila O’Flanagan: ‘I’m sure Sally Rooney will be a super writer when she’s a bit older’The best-selling Irish author talks about female novelists and a silver cheetah called BlissSun Jul 19 2020 - 06:00
Emma Donoghue: ‘It feels very odd to be benefiting from the crisis’Written long before coronavirus hit, her new novel is set in Dublin during the 1918 pandemicSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:15
Róisín Ingle: It was love at first riot. Twenty years later the fire still burnsAs we mark our anniversary, I can promise my partner I will rarely be boringWed Jul 15 2020 - 06:05
Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endingsSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Hillary without Bill? The Clintons’ alternative lifeCurtis Sittenfeld’s compelling new novel reimagines the paths of America’s power coupleSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Look, Ikea! Look, Decathlon! Next thing we knew we were in the queueMaking life different post-lockdown will have to be a conscious, deliberate actWed Jul 01 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: Our personalities emerged in lockdown. Which one of these were you?We learned a lot about ourselves in the pandemic, and perhaps behaved a little oddlyMon Jun 29 2020 - 06:00
