Róisín Ingle: Do your patriotic duty and give in to your raging consumerist instinctsIt will feel nothing but fulfilling to spend in Irish restaurants, hotels and surf schoolsWed Jun 24 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Fintan O’Toole on TikTok? It’s only a matter of timeYou could get lost in TikTok. Many have. It’s the only app worth knowing aboutWed Jun 17 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: Some of us don’t want to let go of our lovely locked down livesWe are like caged animals let loose from our centrally heated, Netflix-enabled prisonsMon Jun 15 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Miss Roddy got Covid-19 and survived. She is 103 and a local legendMiss Roddy’s results came back positive. She was isolated, but the virus didn’t take herWed Jun 10 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: My daughter hugged my mother then apologised. It's how we live nowMy eyes stung as I watched the transgressive moment between grandmother and granddaughterMon Jun 08 2020 - 07:12
Racism in Ireland: ‘‘You dirty black *****’ – I don’t want to say the word out loud’Three young black Irish women share their experiences with the Irish Times Women’s PodcastThu Jun 04 2020 - 14:33
Róisín Ingle: My body has seized up while in lockdownAfter a trip to the sea, I feel myself again. We all need to find our Shelly BanksWed Jun 03 2020 - 07:34
Róisín Ingle: Even Matt Damon has fecked off back homeMorale in my house is at an all-time low. Time to tell each other how we really feel?Mon Jun 01 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: It's only been two months. It feels like 200 yearsA night in a friend’s garden shows us what we’ve lost and found in the pandemicWed May 27 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: My sister Rachael dropped me at that London clinic in a black taxiToday is the anniversary of the day 66.4% of us voted to repeal the Eighth AmendmentMon May 25 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: His ordered Protestant world was gatecrashed by this chaotic CatholicMy partner’s father went to hospital with a sore hand to find out he had a brain tumourWed May 20 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: I sent a message to my ex. I blame the pandemic. And Normal PeopleOne in five people – some single, some not – has ‘reached out’ to an ex during lockdownMon May 18 2020 - 06:00
Amy Huberman: Brian O’Driscoll is ‘a good man to have around in a pandemic’The actor and author spoke to The Irish Times Women’s Podcast for its 400th episodeThu May 14 2020 - 13:30
Róisín Ingle: What happened when I asked Johnny Logan about Dickie Rock?Johnny Logan was probably the first person I fancied. The year was 1980. I was eightWed May 13 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: We need to talk about the elephant in the ZoomI can’t blame my friend for not wanting to Zoom. Lockdown socialising has lost its lustreMon May 11 2020 - 06:00
Johnny Logan: ‘Dickie Rock is a legend in his own head... He lives in a fantasy world’The Eurovision winner talks about music, religion and family. Then things get a bit awkwardSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: There’s something in the early summer air – the beginning of the endIn the gradual lifting of lockdown, we at last have something to look forward toWed May 06 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayIt started badly and got worse: a dead magpie, a Scrabble defeat, social media abuse, fearMon May 04 2020 - 08:01
Róisín Ingle: I’m an optimist. But we need to confront the brutal realitiesEven the news that's meant to make us feel good is getting on my nervesWed Apr 29 2020 - 09:04
Róisín Ingle: The four foods helping us chomp our way through the pandemicPaul Flynn’s thighs, homemade doughnuts, and My Mate Gerry’s Buttermilk Fried ChickenMon Apr 27 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I’m beyond 2km. A man approaches. It’s Micheál MartinWhen would I ever find the time to do the 1,000-piece Beatles jigsaw . . . oh rightWed Apr 22 2020 - 06:00
Some good news: A brainy Dubliner, a climber’s bedroom, and a saucy little dishThe stories that cheered us up today... from neighbourhood safaris to Zoom weddingsTue Apr 21 2020 - 13:19
Róisín Ingle: I love my kids so much I burned down our home schoolWe are all doing what we can to get through this. We can only do what we are able forMon Apr 20 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: How deep are our reserves of patience? We are about to find outWe’ve all got a desperate dose of lockdown lethargyWed Apr 15 2020 - 08:27
Children in lockdown: ‘It’s quite nice being close to the fridge’How are Irish children coping with lockdown? Five of them tell us about their livesSun Apr 12 2020 - 06:10
Ron Sexsmith: Leaving Toronto has been good for the singer-songwriterNew album has all the melodic beauty and subtlety fans have come to expectSat Apr 11 2020 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I nearly asked a stranger for her number. It’s the isolation talkingIn this grotesque new world we have to find other ways to hold each otherWed Apr 08 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: How I met Matt Damon. And it wasn’t in DalkeyThe star has been posing with fans in Dalkey, where he’s riding out the pandemicMon Apr 06 2020 - 06:45
Yoga with President Michael D Higgins? This could be your chanceThe President’s yoga teacher is leading an online class for charity this weekendThu Apr 02 2020 - 14:42
Róisín Ingle: Have you snapped yet? I did the other day. Five timesCoronavirus: Some days you want to put the duvet over your head and forget the worldWed Apr 01 2020 - 06:05
Róisín Ingle: Certain friends are coming into their own at this timeOn these bad hair days and bad news days, our pandemic pals help make things betterMon Mar 30 2020 - 06:00
Liz Nugent: ‘People have accused me of being brave, but what is brave about surviving?’‘I am not a disabled writer. I’m a writer who happens to be disabled’Sat Mar 28 2020 - 06:00
Older people on isolation: ‘I have plenty of food but not much appetite’‘It might be four months. I’m taking it one day at a time. I can’t think further than that’Sat Mar 28 2020 - 06:00
Finding joy in the pandemic: Some random acts that made people happy this weekTwitter users have been telling us what has been making them #IrishTimesHappyFri Mar 27 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: The moment I realised the world has changedIn the ‘new abnormal’ we queue for everything: prescriptions, racks of lamb, fish and chipsWed Mar 25 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: There’s some seriously competitive pandemic parenting going onDetailed daily schedules are being shared that include sewing lessons and poetry readingsMon Mar 23 2020 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: We all wake up one day and remember the person you thought you might becomeColumnist had varied career before attending Trinity in her 50s allowed her learn more about herself as a writerSat Mar 21 2020 - 06:05
‘There’s nothing to forgive’: Pete Best on being sacked from The BeatlesThe fifth member of the band talks about picking yourself up and getting on with itSat Mar 21 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Before Covid-19 we did normal things like make plans. Remember?This Mother’s Day, think of the mums at home, in houses that have become like prisonsFri Mar 20 2020 - 05:47
Róisín Ingle: We are living in a science fiction movie and nobody knows how it will endWe have many questions and few answers. How many will it take? Will we prevail?Wed Mar 18 2020 - 06:10
‘What are my good mothering traits?’ I nervously ask their fatherRóisín Ingle: When the answer finally arrives, my eyes sting with reliefWed Mar 18 2020 - 06:05
Stuck for something to do during coronavirus lockdown? Have a #CovideoParty tonightEveryone simultaneously presses play on the same Netflix film, then chats virtuallyMon Mar 16 2020 - 16:52
Róisín Ingle: I’ve become looks blind. My friends’ ‘hotness’ means nothing to me any moreI care much more for their attractive personalities than for their symmetrical featuresWed Mar 11 2020 - 06:05
Liam Cunningham: ‘My wife married an electrician and ended up with some d**k off the telly’The Game of Thrones actor on the refugee crisis, Mary Lou, and making women faintSun Mar 08 2020 - 06:00
In a small country like Ireland guanxi counts for an awful lotRóisín Ingle: If I had to choose between good friends and guanxi, I know what I’d pickWed Mar 04 2020 - 06:05
‘We had the fear when we were asked to dance. Now the fear is leaving dance behind’A group of women from Dublin's inner city have taken a leap from their comfort zone to express themselves in music and movementSat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
Rachael English: ‘I totally understand why people do writing therapy’Morning Ireland presenter chats to Róisín Ingle about her new novel, RTÉ cutbacks, health scares and the death of Keelin ShanleySat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: The resilience of my children has taken my breath awayRecently I had to help my daughters stand up for themselves. I’ve marvelled at their maturityWed Feb 26 2020 - 06:05
Shame-free sex education: It’s So Amazing! And only a little bit mortifyingRóisín Ingle: In front of my kids I force myself to be a right-on, liberated, shame-free parentWed Feb 19 2020 - 06:00
Not bad for a boy from the Oliver Bond flats – or, as William calls it, ‘the jungle’Róisín Ingle: Despite her dementia, Agnes still recognises William sometimesWed Feb 12 2020 - 06:05
