Speaker John Bercow addressing the House of Commons in London on October 21st on the European Union (EU) Withdrawal Act 2018 motion. Photograph: JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images (Another) big day in Brexit as Johnson brings withdrawal Bill to parliament

Vote on legislation likely to be close, with reports from London suggesting a narrow victory for prime minister

Red Star Belgrade train at the Tottenham Stadium ahead of Tuesday night’s Champions League clash with Spurs. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/Getty/AFP Provinces key to Farrell’s Ireland succession, Sheffield United stun Arsenal
Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson: Has struck a terrible deal for the people of Britain – it opens the way to a hard-right, radically deregulated version of Brexit. Photograph: PRU/AFP Fintan O’Toole: Johnson’s treachery will be turned on Ireland if and when it suits him
Bill Bryson’s latest book takes us apart section by section looking at everything from the brain, head and heart to sleep and the endocrine system. Photograph: Getty Images Bill Bryson’s The Body: Mind-opening study into what we’re made of
Installation of energy efficient solar panels. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Energy-proofing your home: is it worth the money?
Japan’s players and staff after their Rugby World Cup quarter-final defeat to South Africa. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA A bitter end to the glorious Schmidt years, Irish rugby must look to the GAA
‘One of the reoccurring characters in the Brexit soap opera is the most widely used document of Irish citizenship, the Irish passport.’ File photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times Una Mullally: Brexit shows up our nonsensical approach to Irish citizenship
Richie Sadlier’s book is raw without ever being miserable. File photograph: Cyril Byrne Richie Sadlier: Recovering – Far more than just another sports book
Ciaran Carson: the Belfast poet died aged 70 earlier this month. Photograph: Gallery Press Paul Muldoon on Still Life by Ciaran Carson: Final testimony to the power of art
‘I enjoy exploring kink with my partners.’ Photograph: iStock I’m a sexual deviant. How do I tell new partners?
Mamó restuarant Howth.Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times Mamó, Howth: A lovely new spot in the Dublin seaside village
A laptop in Stormont’s parliament buildings in Belfast showing a live feed of the DUP leader Arlene Foster giving evidence to the RHI inquiry. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire Burned: The story behind the North’s ‘cash-for-ash’ scandal
Why has inflation disappeared? And is it a good thing? Photograph: iStock David McWilliams: The economics I learned are now wrong
Ardie Savea, Sonny Bill Williams and George Bridge train ahead of Saturday’s clash with Ireland. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Matt Williams: All Blacks about to blow Ireland’s house down
Joe Schmidt speaks to his Ireland squad ahead of Saturday’s clash with the All Blacks. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Schmidt says Ireland will adapt, Liam Toland on where to target All Blacks
Sophie White is a sharp and funny commentator. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times Filter This: Timely, terrifying look at the dangers of an Instagram life
A file image of DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds leaving 10 Downing Street. The party has foolishly trusted Boris Johnson. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: DUP has foolishly trusted Johnson – who will always put Brexit over union
Fine Gael would plan to cut income tax if it got back into office after the next general election, Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance said on Wednesday Income tax: Do Irish workers pay too much? Here are the facts
Ireland doctor Ciaran Cosgrave with Keith Earls during training ahead of the Rugby World Cup quarter-final against New Zealand. Photo: Billy Stickland /Inpho Joe Schmidt opts for experience in New Zealand clash; creativity remains McCarthy’s problem
DUP leader Arlene Foster: her party has said it cannot suport the current withdrawal deal. File photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire Brexit: Has DUP scuppered the withdrawal deal?
The DUP has a culture where decisions are decreed from the top with no serious consultation inside the party, let alone beyond it. Photograph: Rebecca Black/PA Wire Newton Emerson: Brexit and the DUP’s bizarre aloofness towards its voters
Doer-upper or turnkey home? We compared four modest Dublin houses to see which approach is better value A doer-upper or a turnkey home: Which makes financial sense?
Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan, right, and Labour politician and leader of the opposition Harold Wilson in 1963. Photograph: Murphy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties – The establishment story
Elements of the proposed Brexit deal are set to be a customs border in the Irish Sea and a huge financial package for Northern Ireland. File photograph: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images Brexit talks go down to wire ahead of European summit
Ireland’s Jeff Hendrick, John Egan and Enda Stevens dejected as Switzerland celebrate their second goal during the Euro 2020 qualifier. Photo: Tommy Dickson/Inpho Ireland know it’s do-or-die against the Danes; Gordon D’Arcy on how to beat the All Blacks
DNA kits may seriously disrupt your life – in both good and difficult ways ‘I want to contact the brother I discovered in a DNA test – but it’s complicated’
Ireland’s CJ Stander and Josh van der Flier tackle New Zealand’s Richie Mo’unga at the Aviva Stadium last November. Ireland must deny the All Blacks possession and momentum. Photograph: billy Stickland/Inpho Gordon D’Arcy: Why Ireland must starve All Blacks of possession
Zadie Smith: the prose is stylistically clunky at times. Photograph: Sergio Dionisio/AP Photo Grand Union: Stories – A patchy collection from Zadie Smith
The Taoiseach’s upswing does not translate into a surge in support for Fine Gael Irish Times poll: Leo does a Lazarus with ratings jump
Ireland players during training at the Stade de Geneva ahead of the Euro 2020 qualifier against Switzerland. Photo: Tommy Dickson/Inpho Sexton’s biggest match looms; Ireland on the brink of qualification in Geneva
Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson waves as he speaks in the House of Commons in London on Monday. Photograph: UK parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit/AFP via Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: Tories must grasp the profound stupidity of their approach to the North
Lucian Freud with Brendan Behan in a Dublin street: Youth explores Freud’s life up to the late 1960s. Photograph: Daniel Farson/Getty The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth: rich and elaborate biography
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and UK prime minister Boris Johnson ( inside Thornton Manor Hotel, near Birkenhead, north-west England last week. Photograph: Noel Mullen/AFP Brexit pays Varadkar a welcome if unlikely dividend
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is riding high in the personal ratings. File photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Varadkar’s poll bounce of 15 points restores popular appeal
Japan celebrate their victory over Scotland in Yokohama. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Ireland to meet the All Blacks, thrilling Japan put Scotland to the sword
Patrick McCabe: Some of the best writing in the novel evokes an aloneness that gapes through the waves of distraction Patrick McCabe’s The Big Yaroo: The Butcher Boy grows up, a bit
Connolly has made a strong case to start against Switzerland on Tuesday. Photo: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Ken Early: Mick McCarthy’s attitude towards Aaron Connolly needs to change
I used to be attractive and now I can’t stand to look in the mirror. Photograph: iStock Since I had a baby, my cheating partner calls me fat and disgusting
Michael Harding photographed at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / The Irish Times. Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a campervan
Royals on tour: Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan the Duchess of Sussex in South Africa this week. Photograph: Epa/Kim Ludbrook Harry and Meghan are in a battle with the media that they can’t possibly win
A young boy is held by British soldiers from the Gloucester Regiment after he was caught hurling stones at a Saracen Armoured Personal Carrier in the IRA stronghold of the Lower Falls Road area, March 1972. Photograph: Oliver Morris/Getty Children of the Troubles: a troubling picture of young lives cut short
David Reilly and Derek O’Driscoll have used an insidious brand of intimidation and control, all underpinned by lengthy criminal records and reputations for ultra violence, to rule Ballyfermot Crime kingpins of Ballyfermot: The men behind the Dublin City Council protection racket
‘Could Cork transform itself into a true high-density city?’ File photograph: Getty David McWilliams: If Cork can’t succeed economically, Ireland will regress
Ireland lock Tadhg Beirne and CJ Stander at the captain’s run at the Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup clash with Samoa. Photo: Christophe Simon/Getty Images Keeping the focus on Samoa; Liam Toland on Robbie Henshaw’s importance
Emma Donoghue: ‘Has resisted the temptation of turning formulaic.’ Photograph: Eric Luke Akin: Sparkles with Emma Donoghue’s clear, often witty style
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: almost every lobby group and NGO in the country called for spending increases in Budget 2020. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Stephen Collins: Brexit gave Paschal Donohoe the opportunity to bring in a sensible budget
Is acceptance of the carbon tax all about trusting the Government to use the money wisely? Photograph: PA Carbon tax fact and fiction - What should we make of the criticisms?
A typhoon course map of Hagibis is seen as Alan Gilpin, tournament director for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and Japan Rugby 2019 CEO Akira Shimazu attending during a press briefing. Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo Typhoon chaos in Japan; Joe Schmidt names his team to face Samoa
Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson will meet in private for two hours Brexit: Varadkar-Johnson meeting as low key as it gets
Neil Hegarty: his narrative voice moves between three characters with grace. The Jewel: full of the aching, inescapable truths of history
DUP leader Arlene Foster has been christened “two borders Foster” by the Ulster Unionist Party. How much longer will her authority last? Photograph: David Young/PA Newton Emerson: DUP defensive cunning misses big picture of being laughed out of court
So while sticking with your negative equity property may feel like Stockholm Syndrome – so long a hostage you develop an alliance with your captor – as a survival strategy, it may be one to consider. Clearing negative equity: should you hang tight or cash out?
Mary Costello’s ability to adroitly juxtapose theological queries alongside existential questions is reminiscent of Sara Baume’s writing The River Capture review: Portrait of an individual at the confluence of past and present