And today's news is............ by Patricia Callinan
RTE reports that an Oireachtas committee has been told that urgent action is needed to address the teacher shortage.
The scale of the challenge facing US campaigners for gun control is evident from this article in the Guardian.
If one of the first joint Fianna Fail-Fine Gael bills becomes law ticket touting could be banned in Ireland by this summer.
This month’s Fórsa Insights film screening of ‘Dispossession – The Great Social Housing Swindle’, takes place this Thursday evening February 22nd at 6pm sharp. The theme is housing, a huge area of concern for Irish society and for our union at present. This will be followed at 7.30pm by a discussion led by DIT lecturer and housing policy expert Lorcan Sirr, and the Head of Policy and Communications for the Simon Communities of Ireland Niamh Randall. As usual dinner will be available free of charge for attendees at 5.30pm. All are welcome.
Today's Zen will give you a glimpse of the future (but is already present) and will amaze and concern you in equal measure!