Highlights

Try today’s Daily Eight: A new eight-clue Irish Times crossword

Ray D’Arcy will need to do more than ponder aimlessly to draw listeners to his daily podcast

Project Hail Mary review: Galaxy-spanning blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling is a sentimental treat

Iran now knows Trump’s price point: soaring energy prices

Patricia Forde: ‘People often ask me when I’ll write a proper book’

John Lanchester: ‘My mother was a born storyteller. It is often a form of misdirection’

I left for a week – and came back to war: Life inside Beirut’s expanding evacuation zone

Tech entrepreneur Brendan Kavanagh’s charity faces strike-off for failing to file accounts

Going home on the virtual ward: ‘I knew in my heart I’d recover better where the kids were’

Stylish two-bed villa on Phibsborough’s Arranmore Avenue

I am Not an Alcoholic: ‘She was much more fun when she was drinking’

Watch: Here’s how an architect would renovate this Dublin fixer-upper and how much it could cost

Louis Theroux on masculinity, marriage and more: ‘Would you like me to cry now?’

Green lens or black mirror? Ireland’s changing media relationship with Irish in the US

Ireland’s oldest man: the two things he attributes his long life to

‘Everything is bombed’: Beirut church shelters families fleeing waves of air strikes

Cillian Murphy: ‘It was one of the greatest weeks of my life. I haven’t talked about it much’