what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England". But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports: dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt" dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@theobserveruk.bsky.social column this week is about the new frontier of aspirational parenting: being performatively crunchy observer.co.uk/news/columni...

i HATE let them theory observer.co.uk/news/columni...

column this week: everything is dumb now, for some reason observer.co.uk/news/columni...

@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen. After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home. www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...

i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft www.ft.com/content/8e39...

Labour's decline in support is remarkable. Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).

column this week is about flegs

wrote this for @irishnews.com today www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...

wrote this for @irishnews.com today www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...

observer column this week: make musicians poor again observer.co.uk/news/columni...

wrote some things about THE PUB for @thefence.bsky.social’s book about THE PUB

Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm. Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...

I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.

What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars! While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts. One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸

in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless

This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke ‪@dispatchmedia.bsky.social‬ dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...

Putting the 'sham' in shamrock: @roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Last week I went semi-undercover in Benidorm for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...

What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...

Mormon Wives in the Ft?? This could be the end of momtok www.ft.com/content/c25b...

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex. The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social. Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp

Here's @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's Central London Tourist Bingo

It's sports week at @dispatchmedia.bsky.social — and who better to kick things off than @roisinlanigan.bsky.social? On pigeon racing, the King and a retired builder called Terry. dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-...

Just catching up with @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's superb column on the new Observer website - the first of many presumably? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

in the sunday times magazine this week writing about snooker, sheffield, saudi, ££££££££££££ www.thetimes.com/sport/snooke...

THIS COMING MONDAY, 14th April, I will be sitting down with @roisinlanigan.bsky.social to discuss her excellent book I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There. Tickets now available! You should come!! 📅 Mon, April 14 🕢 7:00pm 📍 Reference Point (London, UK) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-want-to-...

Issue 23 Is Here 🦈 With work from @emmafmagnus.bsky.social, @drblacklock.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @louisstaples.bsky.social, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social, @williamasclarke.bsky.social & more www.the-fence.com/shop/

if u would like to read 3,000 of my words about pigeon racing then u can do that by subscribing to this magazine (equally don't let that put u off)

'I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There' by @roisinlanigan.bsky.social: a bit of millennial gothic, mixing classic haunted house tropes with Gails and Fleabag references. Finely poised between realism and horror, a compelling invocation of the cursedness of the contemporary housing situation.

In AnOther mag today!!!!! www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There by @roisinlanigan.bsky.social is an intriguing mix of dark, unsettling, and compelling ghost story and arresting dissection of class and the rental crisis... An intense contemporary gothic you won't want to miss, out now! 💙📚 #horror #SFF #RentalCrisis

next week i'm so excited !!

The Best Books of 2025 so far, as chosen by @thetimes.com critics. Loads of reading inspiration here and lovely to see Joseph O'Connor and three Irish debut novelists @garrettcarr.bsky.social @roisinlanigan.bsky.social and Róisín O'Donnell on the list 💚 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Róisín Lanigan on how the horrors of the housing market inspired her Gothic debut novel – and why it's a theme for our times

spoke to the face about my book ! theface.com/culture/rois...

BOOK LAUNCHED @roisinlanigan.bsky.social

🚨 The highly anticipated @roisinlanigan.bsky.social debut is out, and as @londonermag.bsky.social points out, it’s very good. www.the-londoner.co.uk/nfts-basquia...

Book of the day baby! (Also publication day 🥰🥰🥰) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

shout out to @roisinlanigan.bsky.social whose ACTUAL NOVEL is published today, go buy

if you love accents you'll love this event with @seamas.bsky.social and I next month: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-want-to-...

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better. First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...