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
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
