Highlights

Your top stories on Friday: Warnings issued as Storm Bert set to batter Ireland; the false election promises being made to under-40s

Johnny Watterson: Conor Niland’s The Racket is a seminal book in the sports genre

Ballsbridge mews formerly home to Irish musician for €1.95m

‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’

Michael Harding: I went to the cinema to see Small Things Like These. By the time I emerged I had concluded the film was crap

Markets in Vienna or Christmas at The Shelbourne? 10 holiday escapes over the festive season

Ciara Mageean: ‘I just felt numb. It wasn’t even sadness, it was just emptiness’

Stealth sackings: why do employers fire staff for minor misdemeanours?

Carl and Gerty Cori: a Nobel Prizewinning husband and wife team

Look inside: 1950s bungalow transformed into modern five-bed home in Greystones for €1.15m

‘I’m in my early 30s and recently married - but I cannot imagine spending the rest of my life with her’

Karlin Lillington: Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump

Your top stories on Thursday

Loss of Brian Fenton and Nickie Quaid will show Dublin and Limerick what ‘irreplaceable’ really looks like

Where plankton fits in the Earth’s ecosystem

Christmas tech for kids: great gift ideas with safety features for parental peace of mind

A Benedict Kiely Reader: Drink to the Bird and Selected Essays review - Words on the importance of place

Ire of farmers and pensioners mounts as British Labour faces possibility of new ‘winter of discontent’

Jon Kenny obituary: Portraits of Irish eccentricity that mingled hilarity with sadness

Complexities of immigrant life captured in museum’s Irish exhibition, and in row over slave trader at the door