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• Listen up: Headphones in the office are not the greatest idea

  The novelist Elif Shafak has published 21 books that have been translated into 58 languages and won multiple awards. Each time she sits down to write, though, she does something unfathomable.

• In a Word . . . Paunch Patsy McGarry

  I heard some terrific news the other day: “The happiest men over 40 are 25lbs overweight.” So said Prof Arthur Brooks of the John F Kennedy school of government at Harvard University in the United States, more commonly known as the Harvard Kennedy School. He lectures on human happiness. Only in America!

• Lowry goes low to reach new heights on a day like no other

  The stars have a habit of aligning for Shane Lowry when it really matters. And if demons have been swirling around in his head for much of the season, he slew them unequivocally – his golf reaching otherworldly heights – to capture the Amgen Irish Open at Trump International in record-breaking fashion and add another famous chapter to a storied career.

• Carrick fumes at VAR call on Haaland’s derby winner

  An unhappy Michael Carrick expressed concern over Erling Haaland’s winner in Manchester City’s derby victory against Manchester United not being ruled out for Enzo Fernández interfering with play when in an offside position. Haaland’s 60th-minute strike at Old Trafford yesterday came after Joško Gvardiol’s cross hit Patrick Dorgu’s boot, passed Fernández and United defender Lisandro Martínez and was finished by the Norwegian striker.

• ‘I needed a break from the mental side of it’

  Mickey Harte always preached to his players about finding that extra, elusive five per cent that can make all the difference.

• Dominant Lowry laps the field to win in style

  In sport, those with the killer instinct don’t hold back or wait for any favours. Such was the mindset Shane Lowry brought into the final round of the Amgen Irish Open where the 39-year-old Offaly man started with a four-stroke lead and mercilessly stretched his advantage stroke by stroke, hole by hole so that his second win in a tournament so close to his heart came as a ceremonial procession.

• Rules are not Crystal clear for Palace

  The last time Crystal Palace’s women’s team was in the top flight in England, in the 2024-25 season, they won just two of their 22 games and went straight back down to the WSL2. But they came up again and opened the new WSL campaign last weekend with a 1-0 over Everton. So, after just one game they’re already half way to matching that tally of wins in 2024-25.

• Cullen pleased with the return to a familiar ground

  Sport, as well as politics, is sprinkled with examples of the head coach or manager’s authority being undermined by their impending departure in an anticlimactic final campaign. Leo Cullen has no intention of this happening to Leinster under his watch, however.

• Housing supply won’t increase just because local councils set higher density targets

  Irish housing policy often presents a false choice between affordability and viability. In reality, neither can exist without the other.

• English does his best but can’t take the ultimate prize

  It was the race to decide the best 800m runner in the world, and in the end Mark English could have no complaints or regrets about his sixth-place finish. Not when he ran another personal best of 1:42.78, a month on from winning the European title, against suitably revered company.

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