Róisín Ingle

Your guide to gifting, shopping, socialising and minding yourself over the weeks ahead

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

Manchán 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 artists

Late 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 scenes

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

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

‘I hope boys see themselves in at least one of the characters and see that they are heroic in their own way’

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

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

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

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

U2:UV Achtung Baby Live, the band’s new Las Vegas set, sounds, looks and feels like no other gig you’ve been to

U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitarist

The band’s huge show U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere opened on Friday night at the most talked-about music venue in the world

Academic writes new book exploring beauty, society’s unrealistic, often contradictory, expectations of women