After terror attacks, passive emotions like love and empathy are encouraged, anger is not
- June 8, 2017
Locals need not apply: a planning problem in west Kerry
- June 6, 2017
Natives say they cannot build houses in their own county, as tourism comes first
David Keenan: 'Music and words are my safety rope'
- June 2, 2017
Musician speaks about honesty and singing in his own voice on the Róisín Meets podcast
Family Fortunes: The West’s Awake stirs memories of my father’s voice
- June 2, 2017
Journeys to my dad’s heartland would be marked by rare – though accredited – singing
Separated but living in the same house with our kids: ‘Not a couple, not room-mates’
- June 2, 2017
Our story of marriage separation didn’t end in divorce, it ended in a new type of friendship
The Women’s Podcast: ‘I was probably six when I was put on a diet’
- June 1, 2017
2FM broadcaster Louise McSharry and Dominique McMullan talk bodies, with Róisín Ingle
‘I’m the oldest transgender person in Co Galway’
- June 1, 2017
Galway Arts Centre show ‘Becoming Christine’ highlights woman’s transgender journey
I've learned all the wrong ways to go about making a relationship work
- June 1, 2017
Tell Me About It: I am afraid that maybe I can’t make a relationship work
Downstressing: How to get out of the rat race
- May 27, 2017
We speak to three people who decided enough was enough and changed their lives for the better
Gordon Snell on Maeve Binchy: ‘Her presence is still here’
- May 27, 2017
The late author’s husband says his memories of her are so good he ‘can never really be sad’
Norah Casey: my first husband ‘battered me senseless’
- May 27, 2017
After one assault I’d three broken ribs, a broken cheekbone and bruising all over my body
‘Women writers have to take humiliation very well’
- May 26, 2017
Róisín Meets Podcast: Author Min Jin Lee on being rejected and taking her time to write
Brain surgeon Henry Marsh: ‘You have to have a big ego’
- May 26, 2017
He pioneered awake craniotomy and, at 67, is still getting inside people’s heads
My mother refused to pray again after my father died
- May 25, 2017
Family Fortunes: I was two months shy of my fifth birthday when he passed away
It’s possible to have a chip on your shoulder and still be correct
- May 25, 2017
Coping: Philosophers are prone to as much pettiness and defensiveness as others
‘My mother and mother-in-law are sick. I know I'll be landed with the care’
- May 25, 2017
Tell Me About It: I feel very angry at how unfair the situation is
Morrissey criticises queen and MPs over Manchester attack
- May 24, 2017
Controversial singer says remote politicians avoid brunt of extremist threat
Skinny Shaming: ‘I’m told I’d look better with meat on my arse’
- May 23, 2017
People say I should be happy to be thin, but it’s hard to be when I am judged for my size
‘They called her a n***er lover’: Ireland’s interracial couples
- May 20, 2017
Interethnic partners describe the glances and gossip, abuse and violence they face
Living with anxiety: ‘I went from carefree to not being able to leave the house’
- May 19, 2017
Journalist and author Caroline Foran tells Róisín Meets podcast how she learned to ‘own it’
'I'd never met anyone from Blackrock before'
- May 19, 2017
‘You won’t want any tart. I hear you get enough of that already’
- May 18, 2017
Coping: My fiery grand-aunt wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. We should be more like her
My friend is getting married but I know he has feelings for me
- May 18, 2017
Tell Me About It: Somebody else told me ‘the groom loves you and the bride hates you’
Death of a chick on Holy Communion day
- May 18, 2017
Family Fortunes: My sister sobbed uncontrollably over the flattened, lifeless chick
How to be an adult
- May 13, 2017
Publishing Viagra? ‘I suppose it’s a flattering shorthand’
- May 13, 2017
There’s more to LS Hilton and her writing than the ‘filthier Fifty Shades’ tag suggests
‘No ring, no bring’ means Vogue Williams is off Pippa Middleton’s guest list
- May 12, 2017
It’s such a shame that the bride’s future brother-in-law won’t be able to bring his girlfriend
Eva O’Connor: ‘I think I’m running out of skeletons in my closet’
- May 12, 2017
Playwright talks to the Róisín Meets podcast about life fuelling art
Squash them or accept them? Life lessons from angry wasps
- May 11, 2017
Coping: In the dark, every unkind thought about yourself finds a tender spot and stings
Caitlyn Jenner on Donald Trump, her family and life after Bruce
- May 8, 2017
‘I liked Bruce. He won the Olympics, raised amazing kids. I don’t want to throw that away’
Do fortune tellers really favour the brave?
- May 6, 2017
A lone surfer’s survival story during 32 hours at sea
- May 6, 2017
Matthew Bryce’s body temperature was 37 degrees. The Irish Sea was 10 degrees. How did he survive?
Ivanka Trump: multimillionaire heiress who’s just like you
- May 6, 2017
Blonde ambition: She’s a ‘gateway Trump’ – and just as big a menace as her father
Trinity students don’t deserve our sympathy? Discuss . . .
- May 5, 2017
Laura Kennedy: Luas works at College Green were disturbing students during study for final exams
How did this woman forgive the man who raped her?
- May 5, 2017
A new book charts the journey of a young man and woman from ‘rape to reconciliation’
Kitty Holland on abortion regret: ‘Women should be trusted to make the wrong decision too’
- May 4, 2017
Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent shares her story with The Women’s Podcast
My teenage daughter is bringing her boyfriend into the house when I am not there
- May 4, 2017
Tell Me About It: My partner and I disagree on rules for the kids
Brandies in bulk: the price of booze 100 years ago
- May 4, 2017
Family Fortunes: L & E Egan was one of the oldest wholesale houses in the licenced trade in Ireland
Communication is complex: caring for my dying husband
- May 1, 2017
Colm’s move from hospital to hospice was difficult. Miscommunication can easily occur
Sex robots: Even better than the real thing?
- May 1, 2017
Is it summer yet? A quiz to test your seasonal knowledge
- May 2, 2017
How hot was 1995? When were statues seen to move in Ireland?
‘It’s likely to be painful’: Madeleine McCann’s 10th anniversary
- April 29, 2017
A decade of reporting without ‘conscience’ has persecuted the missing child’s parents
Brigitte Macron: Older woman behind the ‘perfect young man’
- April 29, 2017
She's been called a ‘cougar’, but the 64-year-old is poised to become France’s first lady
Sue Rynhart: 'I'm happy expressing myself and being heard'
- April 29, 2017
They said ‘Fair play’, but they meant ‘Thank goodness she’s not my daughter’
- April 27, 2017
Coping: Women don’t get pregnant alone. So don’t abandon young single mothers
‘I am 29 and have social anxiety. I have blown my chance at life’
- April 27, 2017
Tell Me About It: I feel very isolated and alone most of the time
The 135-year-old wedding ring my mother wore
- April 27, 2017
Family Fortunes: She told me it was a very old ring – but I didn’t realise just how old
Daniel O’Donnell: ‘I’m cleverer than people think’
- April 22, 2017
Patrick Freyne meets the singer and the fans who would ‘smother their mother’ for him
Childhood cowboy and indian wallpaper now hangs in my study
- April 21, 2017
Family Fortunes: Rory E Mac Flynn recalls the Wild West images of his youth
‘I am getting desperate and that might come across when I chat people up’
- April 20, 2017
"In the past five years, following bereavement, I have re-evaluated my life"
Nursing home at 61: ‘I nearly died of shock when I was put in there’
- April 20, 2017
Inflexibility of Fair Deal scheme limits homecare options for people with disabilities
Dublin and Cork among top 100 cities for millennials
- April 19, 2017
Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich head the table, with Dublin 33rd and Cork 61st
Snapchat turned my brain into self-hating mush, so I quit
- April 18, 2017
It’s repetitive, shallow and tedious, and more addictive than cigarettes. I miss it
Living with an insatiable genetic appetite for food
- April 17, 2017
Kitchens must be locked and money restricted for people with Prader-Willi syndrome
‘Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be good’
- April 14, 2017
Family Fortunes: Seven weeks of Lent over, seven deadly sins, seven churches to visit
Good Friday: Why are so many of us still Catholic?
- April 20, 2017
Modern Irish Catholics, from the cultural to the a la carte and conservative
Family Fortunes: We have a Scotch boy in prison for three days on bread and water for going against Captain’s rules
- April 14, 2017
The Women's Podcast: Does feminism begin at home?
- April 13, 2017
‘My husband is sexting other women and I am devastated’
- April 13, 2017
Tell Me About It: I love my husband but I feel rejected by him and I have no trust left in men
The Women's Podcast: Plan International Ireland's #LostGirls
- April 12, 2017
This episode was recorded live at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre
Want a water baby? Coombe’s birthing pool makes a splash
- April 11, 2017
Despite being something of an innovation now, it was suggested in Dublin back in 1838
Is Rory McIlroy getting married in Ashford Castle? Staff couldn’t possibly say
- April 11, 2017
Paparazzi expected to descend on Cong, Co Mayo for the golfers wedding to New Yorker Erica Stoll
Doctor’s smartphone solution to child sport injuries
- April 11, 2017
Paediatric hospital backs new guide to ‘doing the right thing’ on the sidelines
The disease that gets under a family’s skin
- April 10, 2017
Neurofibromatosis affects one in 2,500 people and can manifest itself in childhood or later in life
Why women need more iron than men and how they can get it
- April 10, 2017
Mrs, Miss or Ms – in this day and age who cares?
- April 10, 2017
Broadside: It’s time to get rid of titles, our names should say it all
Irish sportswomen’s ‘Saipan moment’
- April 8, 2017
Will outrage over Ireland’s soccer team change how women’s sport is treated?
Irish emigrant’s diary from a six week voyage to Australia in 1914
- April 7, 2017
Diary extracts from James Patrick McCormick who traveled to Australia 103 years ago
'The anti-Christ is here. I think his name is Hillary'
- April 7, 2017
In Warwick, Rhode Island, Preacher Patterson is bible-thumping for America
Achievements of female explorers overshadowed by men
- April 6, 2017
My wife is ignoring me and won’t wear her wedding ring
- April 6, 2017
Laura Whitmore: ‘I’m not confident at all. You just pretend’
- April 6, 2017
The Wicklow TV star is taking to the stage – and says she’s faking it till she makes it
Emily Logan: Don’t judge Irish women’s rights by ‘lesser standards’
- April 3, 2017
Human rights in Ireland often ‘viewed as foreign policy’, commissioner tells Women's Podcast
Is reclining your seat on the plane the height of bad manners?
- April 3, 2017
Broadside: Your squashed knees are all about their high-flying sense of entitlement
Teaching circus skills in Gaza: dynamic trio let an idea take flight
- April 1, 2017
A love of flying through the air, clowning and juggling is taken to new levels
Bray bus driver takes the plunge into the seven seas
- April 1, 2017
Bray man takes on a gruelling global challenge for peace in his home country of Moldova