The Irish Times reports on Aer Lingus’s meeting with IALPA pilots at the WRC, which took place yesterday. The WRC talks are underway following IALPA's recent rejection of the findings of the Pilot Pay Tribunal.

Elsewhere, Derek Scally's interview with Germany's finance minister provides a snapshot of the challenges currently facing the largest economy in the EU, while almost £700 million (€818 million) has been allocated by Stormont Ministers to address the public sector pay dispute in the North. 

This article by Arpita Pal from TUD is about how remote working has changed how we learn on the job, while Gerard Howlin has some things to say on the cost overrun at the National Children's Hospital, namely that the problem isn’t the overrun: "it is that the cost was grossly underestimated and all the information the market needed to squeeze the Government was made public in the hurry to make an announcement."

Finally, it's reported that Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has "backed down in a row over money" with the State’s budgetary watchdog, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.

Zen

Your Zen this morning is news from the world premiere of the Irish film Small Things Like These at the Berlin film festival last night. The film stars CIllian Murphy and Eileen Walsh, and is based on the Claire Keegan novella (author of Foster, on which An Cailín Ciúin was based).

The film is a reunion of sorts, bringing Eileen and Cillian back together again almost three decades after they debuted Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs at the Dublin Fringe Festival. An extraordinary production of extraordinary talents.

Have a lovely weekend.

Niall