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
When the doctor becomes the patient, and the loves that sees you throughThe Heavens Are All Blue is part medical memoir part love storySat Jun 27 2020 - 00:00
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
