A judge has described a victim impact statement warning of the dangers of social media by a 13-year-old boy who was sexually assaulted by a 25-year-old man he met on Facebook as the most eloquent he had ever heard.

The comedian Glenn Wool, who is one of the headliners at next week’s Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival, grew up in Vancouver, Canada.

Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’s’ simultaneous real-world and online existences make the case for peaceful coexistence between the Kindle and the codex, says Val Nolan