Sarah McInerney: ‘I had no ambition ... until very recently’The Barna native looks back on her career to date before her move to Prime Time next weekSat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: You have to be careful about optics these days. Well, some of us doThree generations of the family reach Cat on a Hot Tin Roof phase of lockdownWed Mar 31 2021 - 05:00
Trial by social media: ‘At 16 or 17 we were f***ing nuts’The departure of Teen Vogue’s new editor is a salutary tale for anyone active on social mediaSat Mar 27 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I decide to check flights arriving and departing on the Dublin Airport siteI feel like a peeping Tom, sticking my nose into the lives of people going beyond 5kmWed Mar 24 2021 - 05:00
Bob Geldof: ‘The English are a fascinating people but have never understood Ireland’‘I owe practically everything to England,’ says Geldof. Its people ‘are essentially anarchic’Thu Mar 18 2021 - 22:26
Róisín Ingle: We sang our hearts out for St Patrick’s Day – Molly Malone, Ride On, Ireland’s CallNot to rain on your virtual parade, but I never expected another pandemic Patrick's DayWed Mar 17 2021 - 07:59
Róisín Ingle: Social distancing, the 2m kind, is so 2020This Level 5 is very different from the first, hardcore one. We’re not as scaredWed Mar 10 2021 - 05:00
Laura Whitmore: ‘I’ve had enough of being trivialised and gossiped about’The TV presenter on pregnancy, celebrity, her new book and the ‘tough place’ that is LondonSat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
Ireland’s young adults on dating, youth-blaming and being boredOn Zoom, four people aged 19-25 discuss what they have lost – and gained – from Covid-19Sat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
A woman’s life: ‘I got married at 16. I’ve nine kids. I don’t worry’Women and girls of all ages on equality, happiness, social media and life in Ireland todaySat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I told my children about my new handsome friend. They accused me of cheatingI told him I sometimes run away from my family. For health reasons. We laughedWed Mar 03 2021 - 05:00
When a ‘good father’ decides to kill his whole familyCatherine Talbot explores the male-dominated crime known as ‘family annihilation’Sat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: ‘Simon Harris is going live,’ my phone says, and I can’t stop myselfIt’s an interesting thing, watching what people say to Harris on Instagram LiveWed Feb 24 2021 - 05:00
Eve Hewson: ‘I’m really lucky I grew up in Ireland, not LA’The Irish actor on shyness, nightmares and getting to know her native country againSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: This Lent is not one for giving stuff up. It’s time for a shot of tequila with breakfastIf I wasn’t crying or shouting last week I was under the duvet. I didn’t go outside for five daysWed Feb 17 2021 - 05:00
Women in love: Moving on from the Cinderella fantasy of romanceIs the deeply ingrained idea that women need ‘the right man’ to complete them changing?Sat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: ‘I was just wondering,’ the caller said, ‘do you believe in Jesus?’I mean, I know the pandemic has killed small talk, but this was on another levelWed Feb 10 2021 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle on an eloquent pandemic poem: ‘What day is it? Who gives a f**k’‘I wrote my first poem tonight,’ Jan said. ‘I hope you don’t mind me sharing it’Tue Feb 02 2021 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: The gin is now part of my daily routineJanuary has already been going on for 273 days – and it’s not over yetWed Jan 27 2021 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I cannot wait for the articles analysing Doug Emhoff’s cufflinksI’m sure his every hairstyle and shoe colour will be under the same scrutiny as first ladies’Wed Jan 20 2021 - 05:00
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Everything you need to knowGabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the online festivalSat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: We ‘saved Christmas’. Let’s not do the same at EasterThere has to be a more constructive, less frustrating way to spend this year, writes Róisín IngleWed Jan 13 2021 - 05:00
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
