Author Maggie O’Farrell: I had a teacher at school who took the register, called my name and said to me, ‘Are your family in the IRA?’
Gambling Man by Lionel Barber: A lively account of the rollercoaster life of SoftBank’s billionaire founder
My Animals and Other Animals by Bill Bailey: Tales of the comedian’s feathered, furred and scaled friends
I went to the cinema to see Small Things Like These. By the time I emerged I had concluded the film was crap
Truck driver fired for clocking off for night leaving concrete load to go hard wins €2,000 for unfair dismissal
Meet the voters: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’