Roisin Ingle's new blog

Wertz · 13-09-2005 5:23pm

Not having heard of this lady until I happened upon this thread, I was highly amused to just catch her chat with D'arcy on his radio show yesterday morning...this blog really lived up to what she was coming across like in that interview. Well done to all involved...I hate trumped up self importance the likes of which she displays, though she's by no means the only one guilty of it...

Wertz · 13-09-2005 5:39pm

Twisted_Ankle = pwnt?
I think so...

Dfitzer · 13-09-2005 10:43pm

Where is Twisted ankle gone

adonis · 13-09-2005 11:24pm

shame on anyone for reading that saturday magazine in the irish times..
and it used to be so good, along with the ticket (when it was thursdays)
its now a poor attempt at copying the guardian..buy that instead and stop reading the first six pages about farmer a robbing cattle from farmer b...bladdie blah blah...

oceanclub · 14-09-2005 11:54am

ionapaul wrote:

Slightly off-topic, anyone else glad they changed the columnist for the 'People We All Know...' piece that appears on the same page as the what's hot and what's not bit in the IT Weekender magazine?

Some guy wrote one equally and it was as bad. It was a short article about someone called Antonia Campbell Hughes by one of her friends. I'm sure she's a nice person, but dear God, never get your friends to write a puff-piece about you unless they have some sense of irony. Eoin Lyons starts the piece in a conspiratorial way:

Until now we've known her as a fashion designer...
Dunno about you, but I'd never heard of her.

After detailing her startling adventures in a breathy, awe-stricken style (like, being an extra in a TV series), he continues:

For those who know her, these latest adventures aren't wholly surprising - typical of the spirit of a woman with the guts to move to London alone...

My God, how adventurous - an Irish person who emigrates to London. I mean, only about a half-million people this century have taken such a bold step! (*) And Antonia did it, with nothing but several careers, celebrity friends such as Gavin Friday, a family house in Sandymount and a €1.99 Ryanair ticket to fall back on.

Johnny Storm · 14-09-2005 12:11pm

"Ursula Sexthwaite" - LOL - Instant classic.
I only ever buy the Irish Times on Sat purely because I want to know what's on the telly. You must believe me!

ergo · 14-09-2005 10:24pm

was in Tower Recs earlier today, perusing Hot Press (cos refuse to buy it these days)

anyone notice the cover of Hot Press this fortnight?

advertising (on the front cover) that Roisin Ingle was this fortnight's Mad Hatter...!

is this going to make potential HP readers buy this...?

and noticed she got in a plug for her book (including price) as a direct answer to one of the questions, as well as another plug in the small print at the end

If only the Irish Times would bring back Louis East who used to write the "Wing It" column in the same place (I think); she's in London now I think,
or even that guy who wrote that column a few months back for a few weeks, he was funny,
even Steph Booth's "Cavan Calling" (I really enjoyed that but maybe it's not Saturday morning stuff tbh)

RI doesn't help the Saturday morn hangover one bit

magpie · 15-09-2005 8:18am

short article about someone called Antonia Campbell Hughes by one of her friends

She's one of the select group that gets plugged regularly in this shameless rag.

Others include:

Sully & Scully or whatever those two twats with a van selling soup are called

2dEEP2fURIOUS or whatever those two twats who have a snowboarding business are called

"Mutton" Boutique for the older lady in Naas or variations thereon

"Cheap" Furniture outlets where a sofa can be sourced for a mere €15,500

Scudding Clouds (Real Name - Jesus) Interior Design

Read it with any regularity and your ire will be aroused by the unsubtle promotion of the careers of a chosen group of their bumchums.

If only I had the time I'd expand the Bungle Blog and produce a complete edition of the "Naas Herald Saturday Magazine" every week. Its crying out to be lampooned ruthlessly.

magpie · 17-09-2005 2:03pm

Roisin's AMAZING sister

Wertz · 17-09-2005 2:23pm

There we met my friend Crispin and his new boyfriend Campion De La Fey (his real name - WOW!) who is a fulltime professional Charlie Chaplin impersonator.

I'm going to have t' read the real thing for comparison sometime...

magpie · 17-09-2005 4:33pm

Here you go:

Sister pact
Róisín Ingle

My sister Rachael doesn't get out much, apparently because she is an actuary with two small children. Sometimes I ring up and say: Rach, let's go out tonight, there's a party/premiere/envelope opening we really must attend together.

If the timing is right she will say something like: Okay, but do you have any lipstick on you? Which is a bit like Paris Hilton's sister asking her whether she has any spare designer handbags. I told you she doesn't get out much.

We had one of our rare nights out together last week, at a drinks party hosted by a radio station. We ended up sharing the table with Radio Head, who took a bit of shine to her, on account of their having the maths thing in common. He came first in his class at probability, which meant nothing to me but impressed Rachael, who can add up big numbers in her head.

The very happily married Radio Head and the very happily married actuary chatted happily about managing Irish people's increasingly unrealistic pensions expectations. I don't know what it means, either - and, anyway, I was more interested in the mini bagel burgers. They hit it off by working out how long the other had to live. My sister's very attractive for an actuary.

After a few drinks and a bit more chat, Radio Head said he reckoned he had the measure of us siblings. If we were paintings, he said, then I was a Rothko, all colourful and warm and fuzzy at the edges. The sister was not amused. "If she is Rothko, then what does that make me?" she hissed, getting that black look in her eye, the one that will be familiar to my brothers' ex-girlfriends, whom she has cross-examined almost to death on occasion.

You are an Escher print, all straight lines and unusual architecture . . . "Oh great," said Rach, cutting him off. "She gets to be all colourful and blurry, and I get to be all black and white, with stairs that go nowhere. What are you trying to say?" I should have told Radio Head to leave well enough alone, but I was enjoying the unfolding drama. "Escher paintings are very beautiful," he said hopefully. Rachael's stern face was, appropriately enough, a picture.

There follows an example of how Radio Head's perceptive Escher/Rothko comparison plays out between my sister and me. Earlier that evening I had picked her up from her office in a taxi. She was wearing one of her sharp trouser suits, with a white T-shirt underneath. I was wearing sparkly black eyeshadow and a coleslaw-stained floaty dress and carrying my usual assortment of grubby carrier bags.

We were off to a wine tasting in a fancy hotel. I needed someone with a bit of gravitas to accompany me. In addition to being rather good at sums, she knows her Bordeaux from her elbow; I just know I like fizzy stuff, Mad Fish and a nice Sancerre. She is also good at persuading me not to eat my way through large containers of duck pâté just because, like Everest, they are there. She wasn't as successful with the big pile of melty Brie and crackers. Yum.

Later, in the Porter House, she talked business and people management with Radio Head while I quizzed a friend's American date - a pianist at the Liberace Museum, in Las Vegas, if you wouldn't be minding - about how he got into music. At which point everyone listened open-mouthed as Wes Winters - yes, that's his real name - described seeing Liberace on the telly at the age of five and teaching himself, for the next eight years, to play piano like Liberace.

Then Rachael came over all Rothko and asked if he had any Dean Martin in his repertoire. Being the pro that he is, Wes had a lot of Deano, a lot of Elvis and quite a bit of Judy Garland. If you have never had a sing-song led by someone who actually knows the words and sounds like the people who used to sing the songs, go to Las Vegas to meet Wes immediately, if not sooner.

It's only natural that there are times when Rachael would like a bit more of my Rothko and I could do with more of her Escher, but most of the time I am perfectly happy with the way we are. It means that when life gets a bit fuzzy I can ring her for advice on a contract I am supposed to sign or a tax form I am supposed to fill in. It means that when life gets a bit black and white she can rely on me to force her to put on make-up and try on stunning dresses in Barcelona boutiques.

That night, though, the lines between Escher and Rothko blurred beautifully as we sang our hearts out with the wonderful Wes. It's times like these when Rachael and I are a real work of art.

omnicorp · 17-09-2005 4:39pm

shes so self-obsessed with herself.
i pity the boyfriend

simu · 17-09-2005 4:41pm

She should lose the pigtails in her column photo - very unflattering.

Also, very funny as usual, Magpie!

Wertz · 17-09-2005 4:56pm

It's times like these when Rachael and I are a real work of art.

:rolleyes: More like a real piece of work...

I was well aware of the pretentious clap-trap outputted by socialite columnists, in UK broadsheet supplements like the ST's Style section, but had no idea we had a contender of our very own...
Great parody work. I hope her inbox is full of linkage to it.

segadreamcast · 17-09-2005 5:03pm

magpie wrote:

Here you go:

I wonder, if you posted this on the blog, would anyone be able to tell the difference?

She should really just make the font bigger, type "ME ME ME" and leave it at that every week - it'd be the same thing really.

Amazotheamazing · 17-09-2005 5:07pm

She absolutely unbelievable, really feel sorry for her poor bastard of a boyfriend. She must have some charm in real-life that she can't capture in her columns.

omnicorp · 17-09-2005 5:50pm

or hes as bad as her..

Wertz · 17-09-2005 6:05pm

omnicorp wrote:

or hes as bad as her..

...or weighs more

omnicorp · 17-09-2005 6:52pm

Roisin Ingle’s column in The Irish Times Saturday Magazine is relished by thousands of readers every week. In her disarmingly open, thought-provoking style, which always raises a smile, she holds forth on life, love and everything in between. Collected here for the first time in book form, the columns are accompanied by provocative new writing in which she reflects on the death of her father, her failed marriage and the personal demons she has struggled with all her life. From the years spent treating her body ‘as a rubbish tip’ as opposed to a temple to the insights she achieved while dipping her toes in meditation, she writes about her journey so far with all the tenderness, humour and honesty fans have come to expect. Pieces of Me will stir, engage and delight Roisin’s regular reader’s who often find their lives reflected back through her pen.

just thought this was hilarious./
"relished by thousands of readers every week"
"disarmingly open, thought-provoking"

DublinWriter · 17-09-2005 7:04pm

omnicorp wrote:

"relished by thousands of readers every week"

...hopefully with Fava-beans and a nice chianti.

magpie · 18-09-2005 2:08pm

I hope her inbox is full of linkage to it

One can only hope, though from a cursory google only 1 site in the entire world links to the blog. Thanks Paul, whoever you are!

whiskeyman · 18-09-2005 2:17pm

magpie wrote:

One can only hope, though from a cursory google only 1 site in the entire world links to the blog. Thanks Paul, whoever you are!

maybe, but word of mouth is getting this around!
I've emailed it to a few mates, and to a few girlies who actually liked Roisins article... all think Bungles blog is way better!
Keep it up Magpie.... your quest is to make the "What's Hot" section in the Weekender!!

magpie · 18-09-2005 2:45pm

your quest is to make the "What's Hot" section in the Weekender!!

I'll drink to that! Cheers!

omnicorp · 18-09-2005 2:47pm

email her and pretend thta the blog is wondeful and how could she write so well?

strassenwolf · 20-09-2005 8:15pm

You're doing a great job, Magpie. The blog is very funny.

I'd never really read any of RI's columns, but I did last Saturday after coming across Ms Bungle's blog. Her material or style had never interested me, and after reading it last week, I doubt I'll be looking at her column again.

The problem for you, Magpie, is that you'll have to continue reading RI's column if you are to ridicule it as effectively as you have done so far. :eek:

You have my sympathy.

oceanclub · 21-09-2005 7:30pm

I'm doing my best to push Ms. Bungle by mentioning her as often as possible on my blog (oceanclub.blogspot.com).

On the subject of the Irish Times and its parochial circle, I ever got a comment on a piece I did slagging off the Irish Time, mentioning that Antonia Campbell Hughes piece, from the woman herself! More at:

http://oceanclub.blogspot.com/2005/09/letter-from-fan.html

P.

magpie · 22-09-2005 1:10pm

Vote BUNGLE

Good work on the ACH piece Paul. The revolution starts here

Ry · 22-09-2005 2:53pm

Ok I'm slow. Please enlighten me. IS she actually that ostentatious or is she putting it on to sound like all those who are?

Ry

oceanclub · 22-09-2005 3:07pm

Ry wrote:

Ok I'm slow. Please enlighten me. IS she actually that ostentatious or is she putting it on to sound like all those who are?

She = Roisin Ingle, or Antonia Campbell Hughes?

P.

Wertz · 22-09-2005 4:50pm

magpie wrote:

Vote BUNGLE

bwahahaaa

Tick one name in each category (or nominate your own entry in the space provided).
Closing date for entries is Friday, 26 August, 2005.

bah!

segadreamcast · 22-09-2005 5:03pm

OMG - the two women I hate most in media, right below each other:

Roisin Ingle
Fiona Looney

Christ. Must. Suppress. Hatred.

Wertz · 22-09-2005 5:11pm

NoelRock wrote:

Fiona Looney

Is that yer wan off the G. Ryan show?
Can't stand her either...

segadreamcast · 22-09-2005 8:45pm

Yep. Pops up in various other places also.

Thinks she's funny apparently....She'd be on her own there.

magpie · 24-09-2005 3:07pm

Roisin's BOYFRIEND

Wertz · 24-09-2005 3:39pm

Bungle wrote:

Biggotts of Antrim

Bungle wrote:

two Tadghs (whatever that is)

great stuff as ever...I hope this is geting the exposure it deserves

AdMMM · 24-09-2005 7:38pm

If someone like that can get a job in journalism then maybe theres hope for me yet?

magpie · 27-09-2005 8:06am

To all those who have emailed/PM-ed with the touching odes to how the real Roisin Bungle is actually a very nice person and her column doesn't reflect her personality and the mean people at the Naas Herald force her to write it, perhaps you should pass on the following suggestions to RB herself:

1) If you don't want to be lampooned, stop writing your God-awful columns
2) If you don't particularly like the columns why the hell are you bringing out a whole book of this drivel?

lostexpectation · 27-09-2005 2:28pm

i sent it to you as info, you're right in what you said, , i wonder if she'll get her own sex in the city type prog out of it

Wertz · 27-09-2005 5:22pm

magpie wrote:

...how the real Roisin Bungle is actually a very nice person and her column doesn't reflect her personality...

What so she just makes sh*t up? That's even worse.
If she's that nice perhaps she should consider trying to get across the "real" her in her pieces, instead of pandering to her editor and her target demographic.

lostexpectation wrote:

i wonder if she'll get her own sex in the city type prog out of it

...with RTÉ in the driving seat, don't rule out any cringeworthy possibility.

vibrant · 27-09-2005 6:05pm

lostexpectation wrote:

i sent it to you as info, you're right in what you said, , i wonder if she'll get her own sex in the city type prog out of it

Don't worry, if she does get her own programme out of it, it will be made by RTE and will therefore be ****e. In any case, if she does get her own "Sex and the city" type show, I hope it's more city and less sex!

nlgbbbblth · 27-09-2005 10:25pm

I seen Roisin Ingle once in real life - she's a ride.

omnicorp · 28-09-2005 7:27pm

you have to be messing

Wertz · 01-10-2005 4:30pm

Ooh is it that time of the week again?

*clicks*

404

[edit] Deleted posts? Mod shenanigans? I smell the lawyers...

ergo · 01-10-2005 5:57pm

"404 not found" interesting indeed

I have to say, since this thread started RI is the first thing I read in the Times on a Saturday (after the sport that is) just to see what she's ****eing on about, but it's sometimes hard to finish

she may well be a nice person, I just don't particularly enjoy what she writes about

Shane Hegarty's column was good today though. as per

and think I saw RI herself in HMV today, with bf in tow, pigtails and all, or maybe it wasn't her

omnicorp · 01-10-2005 5:59pm

noooo. its not gone is it?

simu · 01-10-2005 8:00pm

Nooooooo! Don't let them suppress it, Magpie! Hasta la mocking Róisín Ingle sempre!

omnicorp · 01-10-2005 10:43pm

post your bungle blog on this thread!

Vunderground · 01-10-2005 11:00pm

Scraggs wrote:

lol really dont like that girl at all at all howd she end up in the times!!

Where else would she end up but in that bastion of midddle everything mediocrity?

oceanclub · 01-10-2005 11:39pm

The blog's gone - anyone know what happened??

P.

02-10-2005 12:35pm

oceanclub wrote:

The blog's gone - anyone know what happened??

P.

What happened to the blog? and why is Renee Zellweger divorcing you're man... these questions need answered...

Roisin Ingle's new blog

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