Plus: Plenty in a name for Maurice Regan’s ‘Luck Penny’; Vincent Browne recalls Charles Haughey’s guile and greed; and Garda to clamp down on souped up e-bikes

Plus: Jeffrey Donaldson’s Down home on the market, Alan Shatter’s mixed debut as a football hack, and Ireland-Israel game nets a big viewership

Plus: National Library seeks a Deputy Chief Herald, Phil Hogan tours East Africa as he bids for UN job, Marty Whelan honoured to be honoured

Plus: A diplomatic practice becomes an ‘outrageous insult’; the ability to ‘quickly gain respect’ a key skill for €208,000 Garda job; and DJ Van Helden and CJH book find common thread

Strong ‘sleep score’ can’t help McIlroy; Irish ram subs in to support Belichick in College Football Classic; Dolly Parton’s Ventry visit goes viral

More than a third of the county’s sandy coastline is deemed at risk of erosion, leaving businesses and homes ever closer to the edge

Plus: Enda Kenny’s new gig and New York mission; €200,000 salary to take on tech giants; prepare to be Gript at Percy French Festival

Irish pessimism on EU rises at wrong time; €5m on offer for Oireachtas creche operator; MEP seeks relief for fleeced farmers

Plus: Leitrim council seeks new residents, Paddy Cosgrave stars on Butt Hall courts, and Dublin-born defender helps goalkeeper go gangbusters

Plus: U2 ride the bus in Mexico City; Ryanair seeks to fill Europe’s ‘best’ comms manager job; Minister goes from eating humble pie to cake

Fuel protests disrupt devotees of St Thérèse; a sad dispute plays out at the RTB; Irish EU commissioner shows hunted can become hunter

Wicklow GAA’s April Fool bombs; Children’s hospital seeks ‘economically advantageous’ provider; Musk praises ‘cunning’ Irish breakthrough for Starlink

Visionary leader sought for Ireland’s AI office; RTÉ cranks up the hyperbole for Jessie Buckley; hairdressing classes for ‘warehoused’ prisoners

Thomas Gould goes viral; Revenue sniffs out new detector dogs, ‘basic laws of physics’ show Dublin 15 getting a raw deal, Netflix ‘on board’ for Keegan adaptation

Plus: Fianna Fáil hits the road, Ireland at the cleaner end of corruption index, and ‘startling’ number of passports stolen