Radio: Haunting radio on RTÉ, while Anton Savage’s guest warns against retinal burns and Claire Brock talks soft-launches

I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble

Séamas O’Reilly: I’ve no need for ChatGPT to help me write - I’ve got the family WhatsApp

Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers

For the past school year, I’ve been spending two mornings each week helping four- and five-year-olds to read

Modern birthday parties have a way of ruining the memory’s illusion of our own childhood celebrations

Newstalk host gives Chalkie White the space to describe the complexity of his reaction to an ordeal that, with George Gibney’s conviction, may finally be near its end

We already have ways of mitigating online harms – they are enshrined in laws we refuse to enact

My son’s World Cup sticker book offers an unmissable opportunity for me to deliver the first ever broadsheet book review of this most vaunted form of literature

I was a wiry, bookish nerd who grew up in open countryside with little else to do than play football

An insane and arbitrary sequence of events led to me getting to write about things for a living, instead of toiling away in an office job I hate

Even its star’s trademark turn is struggling to gain traction for Spider-Noir, Prime Video’s unexpectedly handsome hoot

My seven-year-old son hammers me with all sorts of quandaries, queries and conundrums, from dawn to dusk

There is a host of football-themed programming airing at sensible times, just to get you in the mood

In the final of our family tournament, it is - inevitably - me versus him. He, cocky and self-delighted. Me, imperious and calm