1 Christopher Walken: ‘I’m not disturbed. I pay my bills. I’ve been married for 55 years...’

2 What scientists are learning about oestrogen and exercise

3 ‘The craic is being sucked out of it’: A Galway night out in the new normal

4 Brian Cox on Succession’s success: ‘I’ve lost the anonymity I had for more than 50 years’

5 Funeral, a new short story by Robert Sheehan

6 The warden of Skellig Michael: ‘I have seen people just start bawling crying’

7 ‘Anger and hate easiest way to grow on Facebook,’ says whistleblower

8 The man who sent Ned Kelly to the gallows

9 Waterford city district has State’s highest rate of Covid-19 infections

10 Q&A: Should we be concerned about the new Covid-19 ‘Delta Plus’ variant?

11 Carbon budgets to require ‘fundamental’ changes to work and lifestyle

12 American malignancy puts the US in a very dangerous place

13 Life with Robert Fisk: I realised I would not be at peace until I wrote this book

14 Classic horror: the 10 most terrifying short stories ever written

15 Fintan O’Toole: The ancient art of slander has been reborn

16 Brexit: Frost warns EU proposals insufficient to prevent article 16

17 Ireland hoping to take recent improving form to Helsinki

18 The story of one Irish town and its empty buildings

19 Irish message in a bottle found 40 years later in Russia

20 Catholic Church’s shifting view on cremation seen in new site for urns

21 Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episode

22 Ulster diplomat’s lessons from North Korea: ‘Keep talking’

23 Susan McKay: North’s politicians unite to keep abortion border in Irish Sea

24 Two rescued after being cut off by tide at Baldoyle estuary

25 German court jails Isis woman who allowed Yazidi girl to die of thirst in Iraq

26 Facebook profits top $9bn despite whistleblower revelations

27 Nobody at Manchester United has a clue what they’re supposed to be doing

28 Local Property Tax: Tips for valuing your home ahead of the deadline

29 Consuming slightly less salt can have big health benefits

30 Building workers to get higher minimum pay from February

31 Q&A: Where do I pay inheritance tax from my deceased Irish uncle?

32 Twenty pregnant or postpartum women treated in ICU with Covid-19 since June

33 The chickpea stew that broke the internet in the US is here. Give it a go

34 Six common conspiracy theories and why it’s pointless to argue with them

35 Galway Bishop addresses parishioners about ‘TikTok’ priest controversy

36 National Heritage Week Award Winners 2021

37 The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rock

38 Stephen Kenny’s Ireland on the cusp of recapturing public imagination

39 Johann van Graan sends out stark warning after Munster’s dismal Swansea show

40 Covid grips Europe’s unvaccinated east