Róisín Ingle: Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for meIt’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969Wed Nov 22 2023 - 06:00
Focail na mBan: ‘Go to the fire and warm your vulva’ and other Irish women’s words and phrasesManchán Magan’s new book is a collection of Irish language words for women’s genitalia, reproductive organs, menstrual cycles and sex lives, wonderfully illustrated by women artistsSun Nov 19 2023 - 05:00
Patrick Kielty prepares for Late Late Toy Show debut, as RTÉ flagship recovers from behind-the-scenes clashesLate Late Show’s new host is about to present the biggest show of the season – and has to do it amid reports of tensions behind the scenesSat Nov 18 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: When red storm warnings rage it’s worth remembering the words of Joan BaezParish halls around the country are places where harmony of all kinds can be foundWed Nov 15 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: Dissecting my 84-year-old’s mother’s love life over Sunday lunchThe last time we went out for a Sunday roast a few years ago the Yorkshire puddings were a terrible disappointmentWed Nov 08 2023 - 06:00
Ellen Ryan: ‘I want this book to be empowering for boys. We can’t leave them out’‘I hope boys see themselves in at least one of the characters and see that they are heroic in their own way’Thu Nov 02 2023 - 05:00
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 endWed Nov 01 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I’m doing a Halloween gig and already have stage fright. Hopefully no one will turn upMusician 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 CityWed Oct 25 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: We need joy and distraction, whether it’s Taylor Swift or rugbyYou find it wherever you can when man’s inhumanity is dominating a relentlessly dark news cycleWed Oct 18 2023 - 06:00
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but my night with U2 will stay with me foreverRóisín 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 gigWed Oct 04 2023 - 06:00
U2 live in Las Vegas: An unforgettable gig unlike any otherU2:UV Achtung Baby Live, the band’s new Las Vegas set, sounds, looks and feels like no other gig you’ve been toMon Oct 02 2023 - 12:44
‘We’d love it’: The Edge on U2 returning with Larry Mullen jnr to the Las Vegas Sphere in 2024U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitaristSun Oct 01 2023 - 01:48
‘I’ve never experienced anything like it’: U2 fans on the band’s Las Vegas Sphere debutThe band’s huge show U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere opened on Friday night at the most talked-about music venue in the worldSat Sept 30 2023 - 10:28
Emma Dabiri: ‘Growing up in Ireland I aspired to be very thin, as did everyone I knew’Academic writes new book exploring beauty, society’s unrealistic, often contradictory, expectations of womenSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:30
‘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 WexfordWed Sept 27 2023 - 06:00
Manchán Magan: ‘The Hill of Tara does nothing for me... all these people going up and doing one-legged yoga’Author of Thirty-Two Words for Field has a new book that takes in 18 magical landmarksSun Sept 24 2023 - 05:00
Maura Derrane: ‘Sexually explicit comments were acceptable years ago. A kind of public shaming. I learned to be tough’The daytime TV presenter has been a rotating stand-in host on the Nine O’Clock Show - her first time broadcasting on radioSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
The Coil’s Lament review: Twerking bravura and aching vulnerability Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Síomha Hennessy serves an effervescent mix of stand-up and musical turnsFri Sept 22 2023 - 09:04
Róisín Ingle: The subversive joy of day-drinking can be one of life’s giddiest pleasuresI had a long to-do list to get through that day and not one item on that list mentioned pints in a roadside beer garden with a bunch of strangersWed Sept 20 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: The olds. The youngs. The middles. We’re all just muddling throughThe author of White Teeth calls them 'the youngs' which is a much less judgmental term than 'the youth of today' or even 'kids these days'Wed Sept 13 2023 - 06:00
Maggie Molloy: ‘There’s no point being humble. The show brought attention to forgotten houses’Molloy, an accidental influencer and television star, on her popular Instagram account, coming across like a ‘Holy Joe’ and helping people find homesSat Sept 02 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I didn’t have a period for 240 days and then one arrived like Storm Betty on steroidsWhen The Lethargy strikes I batten down the hatches. I don’t answer the phone or take any notice of the knocks on the doorWed Aug 23 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Gallagher: I grew up in a world where I heard people say, ‘he’s a Protestant but he’s very nice’ West Belfast actor talks about her lead role in The Lovers playing a loyalist from east Belfast and how it brought her to parts of her home city she had never visitedSat Aug 19 2023 - 05:30
Róisín Ingle: Welcome to Taliban Farm where the pigs are in chargeRóisín Ingle: The weight on my daughters’ schoolbooks has nothing on the burden placed on women and girls in AfghanistanWed Aug 16 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: The power of a good cardigan (and a compliment)Róisín Ingle: What I’ve learned is that the mood-boosting power of a colourful handknit cannot be underestimatedWed Aug 09 2023 - 06:00
‘There are people who meditate who find it unpleasant. It’s asking us not to be human’Trinity professor Shane O’Mara believes being able to place ourselves in the past and future is the essence of being humanSat Aug 05 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I’ve been thinking about all the women like Sinéad O’Connor who wouldn’t get back in their boxesI am in awe of young abuse survivors who speak out and, like the late singer, refuse to be shut upWed Aug 02 2023 - 06:00
Eithne Shortall: ‘It still matters that my writing is good, but it matters more to me that I’m a good parent’The former Sunday Times arts writer gave up journalism to focus on fiction and her two childrenSun Jul 30 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: Instead of being celebrated, Sinéad O’Connor was mocked, dismissed and derided for far too longSinéad O’Connor showed us a different way to be a woman, giving two fingers to narrow expectationsSat Jul 29 2023 - 07:00
Róisín Ingle: I’ve discovered the trend of ‘girl dinner’ and now I’m obsessedWhile our daughters were away at Irish college, we found there was no need to do a Big ShopWed Jul 26 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I might be okay, but I’m not fine at all after trying to buy Taylor Swift ticketsAfter six hours I get access to the ticket-buying place but the only ones left cost about €700 each. My finger hovers over the buttonWed Jul 19 2023 - 06:00
Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I think we’re often taught not to trust our instincts as women’The Carlow actor stars in Fifteen-Love, a darkly delicate exploration of abuse in elite tennis, alongside Aidan TurnerSun Jul 16 2023 - 05:30
Róisín Ingle: ‘Help’ they texted, so we went to visit the kids in Irish CollegeRóisín Ingle: I watched them and their Bean an Tí go back inside, the empty-nester I didn’t know I had in me whispering softly, ‘help’Wed Jul 12 2023 - 05:00
Rosemary Mac Cabe: My ‘menmoir’ was a necessary exorcism of the ghosts in my headThe journalist and podcaster’s debut is a funny and painfully human account of past relationships, but she makes it clear that ‘these men are the objects; I am the subject’Sat Jul 08 2023 - 06:00
Róisín Ingle: I got into one of those passive-aggressive phone conversations with my boyfriendThis exchange related to a discussion about which person in a relationship gets to keep their phone on silentWed Jul 05 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I had low expectations for skinny dipping but the absence of togs was transformativeRóisín Ingle: The skinny in skinny dipping does not refer to body size, I’ve only just discovered that. It’s a nod to skin. The skin we’re swimming inWed Jun 28 2023 - 05:00
Aisling Bea: I want to be ‘easy and nice’ but sometimes it is not possible The Kildare comedian, actor and writer comes clean on multitasking, wanting a role in a Marvel movie, what she would tell her younger self, and how being an ‘easy and nice’ woman isn’t all that simpleSat Jun 10 2023 - 05:30
1980s Ireland was all fields and parental neglect was the normRóisín Ingle: My recollection of being 14 is pretty hazy, unless you are counting song lyrics learnt by heart from Smash Hits magazine, but I know I didn’t spend much of that year studyingWed May 31 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: To get things done - like smart ticketing - we need to find the smartest people in the room Ireland: A country with so much to do, but so much confusion and apathy about actually getting things doneWed May 17 2023 - 05:00
Naoise Dolan: ‘Gay is a fun button to press. God should push it more often’A chat with the author about her eagerly awaited second novel, The Happy Couple, takes in Dublin, sensitivity readers and the possible abundance of ‘fantastic, algorithm-brokered sex’Sun May 14 2023 - 00:05
Róisín Ingle: Modern Dublin smells mostly of marijuana, not manureI grew very fond of English novelist VS Pritchett after coming across his sublime observations of Dublin - he had an understanding of what made the city specialWed May 10 2023 - 05:00
Bob Geldof said yes, Annie Macmanus said no, Barry McGuigan said both. So what was the question?Róisín Ingle: These days, to avoid the embarrassment of a public refusal, potential recipients are contacted in advance to see if they would be amenable to accepting the honourTue May 09 2023 - 05:30
‘The concept of monarchy is absurd’: Annie Mac on London-Irish life, rejecting an MBE, and the pull of homeThe DJ and podcaster has written her second novel, but she’s still ‘scarlet’ at the prospect of being called a writerSat May 06 2023 - 05:30
Róisín Ingle: I don’t want new things any more. Everything that comes into the house now must have some historyRóisín Ingle: Long live my resistance to the army of sales people desperately trying to sell me stuffWed May 03 2023 - 05:00
International Rugby Experience, a world-class interactive cathedral to rugby, opens today in LimerickFirst look: It’s difficult not to be impressed on a visit to this not-for-profit cultural institution that is hoped to bring a major boost in tourism revenue to Limerick and the midwestTue May 02 2023 - 08:19
Róisín Ingle: I’ve come extremely late to the concept of ‘wholesome content’, but I love itVirtual wholesomeness is great, but wholesome content is even better when it’s experienced in real lifeWed Apr 26 2023 - 05:30
Roisin Ingle: A night of pool, ping pong and keeping to myself that story of making a small boy cryHow much information is too much when it comes to friendship dates with new pals?Wed Apr 19 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: We should teach in schools what happened to Joanne HayesWe should tell it to new Irish citizens, so they know about the Ireland some would like to burySat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Róisín Ingle: I’ve half-made my bed. Maybe someday I’ll get to lie on itBuilding a bed on my own without any previous experience is probably the most difficult and satisfying task I’ve ever half-accomplishedWed Mar 22 2023 - 05:00
West Side Story: ‘Why are we so hateful? This show will always be relevant’Sixty-five years after it first hit Broadway, the musical is back and it’s coming to DublinSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
