Róisín Ingle

Róisín Ingle columns

Róisín Ingle: I’ve had to rethink my long-held antipathy to self-service checkouts

My neighbour at the next machine was visibly agitated because my frozen pizzas were spilling on to his purple sprouting broccoli

Róisín Ingle puts a Thermomix to the test: ‘I am a convert but there’s one enormous catch’

Looking for a solution to the perennial ‘what’s for dinner’ question? The world’s most powerful blender - albeit for a high price - will have the answer

Róisín Ingle: Lessons not learned as men – it’s always men – go to war

After wandering through the War and the Mind exhibition, we emerge blinking into the London sunshine pondering the fragility of everything

I don’t celebrate when my consultant says my cancer is stable

I walk out of that door and my mind turns from the existential to the everyday

‘The stand-up mingle is a social minefield, so I play it safe, these days’

Some people might say that, if you’re at a party, sit-down mingling is by its sedentary nature not mingling at all. It does have a downside

There were many remarkable things about my Uncle Christy. I’ll mention just two

I decided I would channel my late uncle, who ‘could eat an apple through a letterbox’ and wore flip-flops all year round

I’ve discovered padel, and it has been a wonderful revelation

It turns out I have a pretty decent lob. For balance, I should mention that at one point I also accidentally whacked myself on the forehead with a racquet

Róisín Ingle: After 24 years of non-married bliss and bickering, my wedding was a whirlwind

I’m pretty hopeful this love will be everlasting. Let’s hope it lasts longer than the rings, anyway

Róisín Ingle: After a serious medical diagnosis, I made a small but profound lifestyle change

Last year, after receiving a serious medical diagnosis the shock propelled me to make a few permanent, self-improving lifestyle changes

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is not just a concert, it’s a love story - and Dublin said yes

No dud moments and no time for toilet breaks as 50,000 fans - including Róisín Ingle - scream and whoop through the hits

Friends, bad singing and Love Actually: Miriam O’Callaghan, James Kavanagh, Marian Keyes and more on their Christmas traditions

We asked a range of people – including refuseniks – to tell us about the moments that make their season bright

Róisín Ingle: I’ve always been a sucker for a dark or sad song set around Christmas

A friend of mine stands by his thesis: A Fairytale of New York is not a Christmas song

Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for me

It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969

Róisín Ingle: When red storm warnings rage it’s worth remembering the words of Joan Baez

Parish halls around the country are places where harmony of all kinds can be found

Róisín Ingle: Dissecting my 84-year-old’s mother’s love life over Sunday lunch

The last time we went out for a Sunday roast a few years ago the Yorkshire puddings were a terrible disappointment

Róisín Ingle: I thought I was unscammable. I was wrong. Here’s what I learned from the unpleasant experience

It was a text message purporting to be from Revolut that got me in the end

I’m doing a Halloween gig and already have stage fright. Hopefully no one will turn up

Musician Pádraig Dwyer and I are singing murder ballads at the Dracula After Dark event in this year’s Big Scream festival in Dublin’s North East Inner City

Róisín Ingle: We need joy and distraction, whether it’s Taylor Swift or rugby

You find it wherever you can when man’s inhumanity is dominating a relentlessly dark news cycle

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but my night with U2 will stay with me forever

Róisín Ingle: There are things you can’t write in a review of a U2 concert for The Irish Times, like how you cried uncontrollably for much of the gig

‘I was a sauna sceptic. Too hot. Too intimate. Too much. But not anymore’

The Saltee Sauna is a wood-fired hot box with a view in Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford

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