The front pages on Tuesday 22 August announced that British police had charged 11 people with offences relating to the recent alleged bomb plot. The statement issued by the police described the discovery of "bomb-making equipment... chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide, electrical components, documents and other items... a number of video recordings – these are sometimes referred to as martyrdom videos".

Why does journalism appear to consider itself a secular pursuit? Is this syndrome especially a feature of Irish journalism and, if so, why? Writing in the foreword to the annual report of the Catholic Communications Office, Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland, strongly criticised, without naming names, several Irish Sunday newspapers, and urged his flock to use consumer power to effect change in the media.

Billy Leahy on Paloma Verga Weisz's exhibition of sculpture and paper works at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

During the intifada, if a bus was blown up in the streets, it was taken away and the pavements were cleaned. The bodies were attended to by Orthodox volunteers who collect body parts in order that the dead be buried in accordance with Jewish tradition. The blood was cleaned from the No Parking signs. The flesh was scraped from the window panes. The arm bones were removed from stomachs. The leg bones were removed from eye sockets. The ears were lifted off engine parts.

The defamation of the Muslim community in Ireland by the Sunday Independent and the Sunday Tribune. By Scott Millar

Mickey Devine was the last to die. He left us after 66 days on hungerstrike. I met Mickey in the big cell that passed for a canteen in the prison hospital in the H Blocks of Long Kesh a month before he died.

The first Catholic to captain Northen Ireland and the last man to shy away from a row, Martin O'Neill is poised to make his mark in the Premiership, says Ken Early.

Treating urban myth as reality, Irvine Welsh's Babylon Heights tells of four Munchkin extras' nightmarish treatment on the set of The Wizard of Oz. By James Redmond

The "silly season" is thus called because of an alleged dearth of news, but very often this makes little sense. Wars, disasters and calamities proceed regardless of the season, and there are plenty of additional events – sporting, cultural etc – to compensate for the closedown of parliamentary and jurisprudential activity.

RTÉ's Townlands provides a glimpse of a new way of living through sustainable housing, while Three 60 gives is a refreshing insight into the life of wheelchair-bound farmer