On the Town: The Ingle brothers and sisters gathered to salute their famous sibling, Róisín, at the launch of her first book in Dublin.
Among those who waited to congratulate her on the publication of Pieces of Me, A Life-in-Progress, a collection of her weekly columns in the Irish Times Magazine, were her youngest sister, Katie Ingle, manager of Rococo in the Westbury Mall; her eldest sister Dr Sarah Ingle, a DCU lecturer; and her brothers Peter and Michael.
Her older sister, Rachael, was also there, as was their mother, Ann Ingle, surrounded by family and friends. Ingle's boyfriend, Jonny Hobson, from Portadown in Co Armagh, was there with his mother, Iris, and sister, Caroline.
Neighbours from Sandymount village in Dublin, where Róisín grew up, came to the launch too, including Bruno Borza and his daughter, Giorgina (15), as well as Mary O'Carroll and her friend Fiona Quigley.
According to the book's publisher and editor, Ciara Considine of Hodder Headline Ireland, "Róisín's special gift as a writer is her ability to reveal herself, warts and all, in an honest and often disarming way.
"Whether talking of love, family, spirituality, childhood, health, bullying, even the state of the nation, she is always gently probing and naturally funny . . . Employing her deceptively simple guise as 'everywoman' she breaks taboos," she said.
"The personal and the prosaic are the small mechanisms that turn the world," said Considine. Róisín's columns "document that notion beautifully".
"You run us through the entire gamut of emotions," said journalist and writer Paul Howard (aka Ross O'Carroll-Kelly), who launched the book. "She writes about the things that really affect people's lives," said Howard.
Pieces of Me, A Life-in-Progress by Róisín Ingle is published by Hodder Headline Ireland