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07:25 Róisín Ingle: I have a list in my head of unwritten letters. Now I will write them

I’ve decided I am going to write one letter a week. I’ve even ordered a new writing set

16/04 Róisín Ingle: We will have two 16-year-olds in this house soon which is blowing my mind a bit

I thought about making a balloon arch for the birthday party a la Meghan Markle, but she makes it look too hard

09/04 Róisín Ingle: Here’s what happened when I lost my phone ... again

Sometimes it feels like I’ve spent my whole life losing and learning

26/03 Róisín Ingle: I was mortified by how much Kate Middleton’s message affected me

But I was also grateful. I am still careful about the links I click on but I am not as afraid of cancer content

19/03 Róisín Ingle: I got a D in pass maths in the Leaving Cert but I addressed the Society of Actuaries in Ireland dinner

Róisín Ingle: I worried that my after-dinner talk was too grim, but my speech – especially the death content – went down well

12/03 Róisín Ingle: On powerful drugs and recently diagnosed with cancer, I proposed to Jonny

I invited Jonny for dinner on Leap Day hoping he wouldn’t twig the significance of the date

02/03 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

26/02 Róisín Ingle: It’s always man’s – not women’s – inhumanity to man that is writ large across history

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

19/02 Róisín Ingle: 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

12/02 Róisín Ingle: I enjoyed a proper old-fashioned hooley with a prolonged sit-down mingle

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

05/02 Róisín Ingle: The weather is frightful but I’m wearing flip-flops

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

22/01 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

15/01 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

30/06 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

17/12 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

13/12 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

22/11 Róisín Ingle: 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

15/11 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

08/11 Róisín Ingle: Is it actually possible, in this day and age, to have a phone-free lunch?

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

01/11 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

25/10 Róisín Ingle: 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

18/10 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

04/10 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

27/09 Róisín Ingle: This sauna sceptic has been converted but I’m keeping my togs on. For now

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

20/09 Róisín Ingle: The subversive joy of day-drinking can be one of life’s giddiest pleasures

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

13/09 Róisín Ingle: Zadie Smith is right. Gen X-ers are incredibly self-involved

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'

23/08 I didn’t have a period for 240 days and then one arrived like Storm Betty on steroids

Róisín Ingle: 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

16/08 My back-to-school blues are a privilege compared with what the Taliban is doing to women

Róisín Ingle: The weight on my daughters’ schoolbooks has nothing on the burden placed on women and girls in Afghanistan

09/08 Róisín Ingle: Me and my cardigan - the garment my friend knitted is witchcraft in wool form

Róisín Ingle: What I’ve learned is that the mood-boosting power of a colourful handknit cannot be underestimated

02/08 Róisín Ingle: We should be grateful to all the women who won’t get back in their boxes

I am in awe of young abuse survivors who speak out and, like Sinéad O’Connor, refuse to be shut up

26/07 Róisín Ingle: I’ve discovered the trend of ‘girl dinner’ and now I’m obsessed

While our daughters were away at Irish college, we found there was no need to do a Big Shop

19/07 Róisín Ingle: I might be okay, but I’m not fine at all after trying to buy Taylor Swift tickets

After six hours I get access to the ticket-buying place but the only ones left cost about €700 each. My finger hovers over the button

12/07 We transformed from Lighthouse Parents to Helicopter Parents when we visited Irish college

Róisín 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’

05/07 Róisín Ingle: I got into one of those passive-aggressive phone conversations with my boyfriend

This exchange related to a discussion about which person in a relationship gets to keep their phone on silent

28/06 Skinny dipping: I’ve always been conscious of my body, but the absence of togs was transformative

Róisín 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 in

31/05 Helping my kids study for exams is like a second bite at the educational cherry

Róisín 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 studying

17/05 Róisín Ingle: We need to tick things off our National To Do list. Let’s start with smart ticketing

Ireland: A country with so much to do, but so much confusion and apathy about actually getting things done

10/05 Róisín Ingle: Modern Dublin smells mostly of marijuana, not manure

I 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 special

06/05 ‘The concept of monarchy is absurd’: Annie Mac on London-Irish life, rejecting an MBE, and the pull of home

The DJ and podcaster has written her second novel, but she’s still ‘scarlet’ at the prospect of being called a writer