Plus: divine intervention in the Lidl turf wars, and the Naval Service turns to landlubbers for help

Plus: rumours of James Dyson hoovering up property, Rod Liddle’s Dunphy moment and 100 cups a minute

Plus: Maggie O’Farrell fan Justice Kagan, Micheál Martin’s gamer protegés and two jobs putting out fires

Plus: mixed signals on Metrolink, taking back placenames and wine-testing at the Abbey

Plus: Raw milk’s granny-longevity powers, taking back Halloween, and a sort of homecoming for Pico Lopes

Plus: enough with the AI posters already, selling sushi to the Japanese and life as an otter

Ancestral links suggest Makerfield byelection winner is somewhere between Joe Biden and Tony Blair

Plus: Europe’s flag absent from the Dáil, Feargal Quinn makes The New Yorker, and a gunfluencer for whom the Provo aesthetic appeals

Plus: Battle of the Boyne gets more interpretation, a use for wool at last and fears of spooking the Gap of Dunloe horses

Plus: Republican Taytos sneak into London, Kildare goes dry even before data centres, and Pope Leo the geek

Plus: Patrick O’Donovan’s famine-memorial socks, TDs ignored by everyone and a marksman for the birds

Plus: lord of the manor Danny Huston, the southside padel craze and Adare’s infrastructure miracle

Plus: high tempers in the art scene, the world’s quietest communications firm, and Michael D Higgins’s gift to the nation

Plus: The youthful protester pope, and a hiccup in a case against John Magnier

Plus: a State-funded video of a bridge, jobs for the boards and a tentative Artemis II Irish angle