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Róisín Ingle (born 1971 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish journalist, columnist, author and podcaster. Growing up in Sandymount, Dublin, she worked locally and then abroad but returned to Ireland where she has worked at the Irish Times since the 2000s, notably producing a widely-read weekend column, working as a features editor and producing two podcast series. Selections of her columns, which number more than 4,000, have been collected in two books, and she is also co-author of another, and editor of others.

Early life
Ingle was born in Dublin in 1971. Her mother, Ann, was born in England, while her father, Paul, was from Dublin; they met in Newquay in Cornwall. They brought up their family in Sandymount. Following five years living with schizophrenia, Paul Ingle died by suicide in 1980, when Róisín Ingle was eight, leaving his wife of 19 years, then 41 years old, with 8 children ranging from 2 to 17 years old.

Ingle went to school at Scoil Muire, Lakelands, Sandymount and Sion Hill Convent School, Blackrock, and then for a year attended NUI Maynooth. She went to the UK to seek work, securing a job as a waitress in Golders Green, London at 22. She met a Bosnian refugee, Mladen, there, and they married and settled in Ireland.

The Irish Times
Ingle entered journalism at the Sunday Tribune and in the late 1990s moved to the Irish Times, first as a journalist, with her first archived article covering a new unit at Wheatfield Prison, then also as a columnist, and later also as deputy, and then daily, Features Editor. She won the Young Journalist of the Year Award at the National Media Awards presented by President Mary Robinson in October 1996.

Her columns, often sharing highly personal observations, are published weekly at the front of the Irish Times's weekend supplement. They began in 2002, when she took over the Regarding Ireland slot, initially for three weeks, and then continued, with occasional breaks. A first collection of her columns was published in 2005, after they had run for about three years. Launched at an event hosted by close friend Paul Howard, inventor of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, and attended by her partner, mother, and at least five of her siblings, it included an autobiographical essay of around 50 pages, covering her early life and career development, including several traumatic events.

In 2015 she and Natasha Fennell co-released a book on mother and daughter relationships, including a personal essay on the topic by each, and a range of other writers. It was launched at a media event at the Rotunda Hospital, by Miriam O'Callaghan. The book was nominated for the Irish Book Awards.

Later in 2015, Ingle released a second collection of her columns, Public Displays of Emotion, drawing on more than 4,000 Irish Times columns. In the book, and in a column extracted from it, she revealed, in solidarity with the "more than 150,000 women have left Ireland, mostly for England, to get abortions" since 1980, that she had had an abortion about 15 years before, in the UK, when it was still illegal in Ireland. She explained the background and how she arranged it with the support of the man involved, and family and friends. Reactions were mostly positive, though some negative, and even some abusive, correspondence was received.

Podcasts
Ingle has also produced and presented podcasts for the Irish Times, over years, including the Listen Up series and the Róisín meets... series, which had reached 244 episodes by 2018. As of 2021, she co-hosts the Irish Times Women's Podcast with Kathy Sheridan.

Appearances
Ingle appeared on Miriam O'Callaghan's radio programme "Miriam meets..." for two joint interviews: in 2009, in the second episode of the whole series, with her mother, and in 2012 with her friend, Paul Howard.

Publications
Ingle has published two volumes based on collections of her Irish Times columns:
 * Pieces of Me (A Life-in-Progress), a long autobiographical essay followed by a selection from her first three years of personal columns (Dublin, Ireland, 1 September 2005: Hodder Headline Ireland, ISBN 9780340839188)
 * Public Displays of Emotion (Dublin, Ireland, 2015: Irish Times Books, ISBN 9780907011477)

She co-authored a book on mother-daughter relationships, which included an article on herself and her mother:
 * The Daughterhood (Dublin, Ireland, February 2015, Natasha Fennell and Róisín Ingle)

She has edited:
 * The Thank You Book, a fund-raising initiative for the Irish Hospice Foundation, designed by Stephen Averill and with an introduction by Dr Marie Murray, and contributions gathered from Seamus Heaney, Maeve Binchy, Brendan Gleeson, Edna O'Brien, Martin Sheen, Gabriel Byrne and others, and which raised around 3 million euro for the charity (Dublin, Ireland, October 2010: Irish Hospice Foundation)

Personal life
Some time after her father's death Ingle witnessed the accidental drowning of a family friend who had become a replacement father figure to her family. Her first marriage broke down in the late 1990s, and she divorced after about five years of marriage. These and other life stories she discussed in the essay element of her 2005 book, Pieces of Me.

She met her long-term partner, Jonny Robson, in Portadown, in 2000, and her columns have sometimes discussed the complications from their mixed Irish Catholic and Northern Protestant backgrounds. They have twin daughters.