A flying visit to Santa’s Command Centre in Lapland‘He’s definitely the real Santa. He knew our names and he speaks Finglish’Mon Dec 19 2016 - 01:00
Róisín Ingle: how do we talk to our children about Trump?Dos and don’ts for parents to follow when explaining what happened on the ‘Day of Days’Wed Nov 09 2016 - 18:30
Lucy Kellaway: I don’t believe we can be authentic at workAhead of her appearance at The Gloss’s Look the Business event, the management columnist talks office styleTue Oct 18 2016 - 10:30
Why don’t we tell little girls the correct names for body parts?On The Women’s Podcast, journalist and author Peggy Orenstein discusses why we need to change how we talk to girls about sexMon Oct 17 2016 - 10:00
India Knight: Abortion situation in Ireland is ‘insane, peculiar and profoundly wrong’The British columnist and author spoke to the Women’s Podcast about abortion, Trump, Brexit, fatness and why she has written a book about dogsSun Oct 09 2016 - 12:00
Roisin Ingle: Why I'm writing my final columnOne day you find yourself longing to be free from the internal and external pressures compelling you to interrupt ordinary moments by turning them into columnsSat Aug 13 2016 - 04:00
‘It’s an impossible conundrum’: Jojo Moyes on the right to dieMoyes was becoming disillusioned when her novel Me Before You took off. She talks about transferring her story – which tackles euthanasia – to the big screenFri May 27 2016 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle ... on making ghee‘Thirty years ago when my brother came home and tried to tell people they should drink ghee, he nearly got ran out of town’Sat Apr 30 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ... on filling up my censusTicking the “No religion” box on the census form is no 1916 Rising but it is a peaceful protest against the religious dominance in our education system.Sat Apr 23 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Get on your bike and feel like a newly independent kid againCycling can awaken your senses, help you to meet (handsome) new people and provide an excuse to shopWed Apr 20 2016 - 01:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on a triathlon with Bressie (sort of)‘Bressie is using his celebrity and life experiences to change this country for the better, and I have huge respect for him. Still, a triathalon might be taking that respect too far’Sat Apr 16 2016 - 05:00
‘Bullet-proof’ Billy Elliot takes his tutu to DublinBilly Elliot: The Musical has been exhilarating audiences for 11 years. Producer Eric Fellner reveals how a theatrical phenomenon was bornFri Apr 15 2016 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle on . . . Thinking outside the inboxI am talking, of course, about email inbox overload.Sat Apr 09 2016 - 05:00
Those magnificent Ulster men and their flying machinesMembers of the voluntary Ulster Aviation Society spend their days rebuilding old aircraft. They are a remarkable bunchFri Apr 01 2016 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle ... on superfun face-swapping‘Last weekend I bumped into a friend who showed me a load of face-swapping photos – yes, she had swapped faces with her husband, her daughters and her son’Sat Mar 26 2016 - 05:00
Caitlin Moran: ‘Having 4% battery left on your phone: that’s how it feels to be poor’Moran has a lot to say. She talks about her skill for monologues, the reason she is annoyed about Brexit, and the great advice she got from Courtney LoveMon Mar 21 2016 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on letting a grudge go‘I didn’t really mean to ask The Dinner Party. I’ve just been asking myself for so long that it came out by mistake, a fully formed grievance. How do other people find ways to move on from the hurt?’Sat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on walking the walkMost every Sunday I wake up and think: Today I will walk down to the Poolbeg Lighthouse. And Sundays come and Sundays go and it never happens.Sat Mar 12 2016 - 05:00
Ruth Fitzmaurice lands book deal on back of ‘Irish Times’ articleChatto & Windus says literary memoir is ‘an incredible love letter’. ‘I Found My Tribe’ tells of her life with filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, who has motor neuron diseaseFri Mar 11 2016 - 13:02
Róisín Ingle ... on less work, more playIn hindsight, this was probably the worst time I could have possibly chosen to watch the Shonda Rhimes Ted Talk.Sat Mar 05 2016 - 07:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on fat chancesBe alive to ideas and chances that come your way and who knows what might happenSat Feb 27 2016 - 02:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on ‘Mary’ and other euphemismsFor all my lofty, liberal, feminist intentions, I’ve been guilty of “front bottoming” the situation with our daughtersSat Feb 20 2016 - 00:00
Marian Keyes: ‘I don’t want to be remembered after I die’The writer talks about the man who made her cry, why Danny DeVito would play her in the film of her life, and why she regrets getting married in a churchMon Feb 15 2016 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle on ... being crazy in love (with my driving instructor)I won’t know myself, apparently. I will be driving everywhere. But I am not so sure.Sat Feb 13 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle on ... boring bucket listsIf bucket lists are annoying by their very nature then a highly aspirational one is even more of a pain.Sat Feb 06 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle on ... body donationI can’t say I was thrilled to see the word death in such close proximity to my mother’s name, but the message didn’t exactly put me off my roast potatoesSat Jan 30 2016 - 05:45
Róisín Ingle: The day I slept rough in DublinFive years ago, Keith Harrington showed me a day in the life of a homeless person. He died three years laterWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:00
Róisín Ingle on ... Princess T-shirts“My princess T-shirt fatwa comes from a place of good intent: I played ordinary, common or garden, Lego when I was a child”Sat Jan 23 2016 - 05:45
Róisín Ingle ... on a collision courseThey say sticks and stones may break bones but names will never hurt. Well that’s a big lieSat Jan 16 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ... a little light therapyI work up a sweat in the freezing cold of Dublin and I think of the sunsets and the trip to Dinan where we rented bikes and cycled around a lake.Sat Jan 09 2016 - 02:00
Róisín Ingle ... on many happy new podcastsOnce you discover a new podcast that you love you can binge on it in the same way certain people binge for hours, days and weeks on boxsets or NetflixSat Jan 02 2016 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ... on Turkey EveThe Year Mum Burned the Turkey my mother cried into a tea towel and we all said it didn’t matter, that we liked turkey much better when it was well done and sort of sawdusty.Thu Dec 24 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on free, safe and legal mugs‘Big Brother is watching us and ignoring us and hoping we’ll stop bleating on about the misogynistic Eigth Amendment’Sat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ... on staying in bed‘December is suddenly feeling like very hard work. Most of the time I’d rather be in bed’Sat Dec 05 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ...on being Minister for EducationIf such an event were to occur I would rename myself Minister with responsibility for Bringing Out The Best In EveryoneSat Nov 28 2015 - 08:00
Róisín Ingle . . . on going on the tellyI’m a bit nervous, which is like saying Pamela Anderson, who is also due on the show, is ‘a bit famous’Sat Nov 21 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle ... on going back to college‘For the first time in my life I am thinking of what I lost and what I could have gained from going to college’Sat Nov 14 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle on ... irritation once againIn the past few days I’ve been irritated by so many things, none of them significant in the larger scheme of thingsSat Nov 07 2015 - 00:00
Róisín Ingle on . . . the masks we wearIt’s not just at Halloween that we pretend to be people we are not. Here are some tips on how to do it betterSat Oct 31 2015 - 05:45
Róisín Ingle on ... Panti Bliss and ‘The Queen of Ireland’Not fitting in is no crime but it can often feel like the darkest and most lonely of placesSat Oct 24 2015 - 13:00
‘Potentialife has been ground-breaking for me . . . ’A different kind of workplace leadership course has come to an end after nine months. Here’s how four fared with Be Your BestWed Oct 21 2015 - 06:45
Roisin Ingle on . . . winningI’m not blaming my mother (much) but my first standout memory of anyone learning to drive is the story of her crashing into the back of a parked bus in the late 1970sSat Oct 17 2015 - 02:00
Róisín Ingle ... on the women of 1916“Irishness” can be a challenging concept sometimes. And sometimes all the many shades of it aren’t recognised enoughSat Oct 10 2015 - 11:00
Róisín Ingle on . . . sibling stuffSometimes we stayed up late in my kitchen and I was able to tell him of my nerves and dread around sharing my storySat Oct 03 2015 - 05:45
Róisín Ingle on ... changing the roomsInstead of good money after bad, I decide to try to throw a bit of good money after good. Good advice that is.Sat Sept 26 2015 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle on . . . “coming out” with gratitudeI am sitting at my desk, bursting with gratitude for so much since I “came out” about my abortion in last week’s magazineSat Sept 19 2015 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Why I need to tell my abortion story‘I can’t speak for anyone else. But for me. This was the right thing to do’– Róisín Ingle, in an extract from her new book, writes about her abortionSat Sept 12 2015 - 05:45
Róisín Ingle on . . . the life changing magic of tidying up"I am secretly delighted that instead of Electric Picnic, this weekend I will continue on a very different mission: I am finally putting my house in order"Sat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
