We asked a range of people – including refuseniks – to tell us about the moments that make their season bright
Róisín Ingle
Róisín Ingle columns
A friend of mine stands by his thesis: A Fairytale of New York is not a Christmas song
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
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
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
The Saltee Sauna is a wood-fired hot box with a view in Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford
I 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 strangers
The 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'
When The Lethargy strikes I batten down the hatches. I don’t answer the phone or take any notice of the knocks on the door
Róisín Ingle: The weight on my daughters’ schoolbooks has nothing on the burden placed on women and girls in Afghanistan
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