I can also confirm that the adverse effects of Brexit will be strictly for the Little People, amid news that former Vote Leave Chair Nigel Lawson has applied for French residency. This is a family Digest so I can't print my colleague Niall's reaction, but the clue's in the photo.

On the other side of the Channel, there are now fewer strikes than in 1893 and the Fire Brigade Union's general secretary Matt Wrack felt it necessary to defend the Grenfell firefighters in yesterday's Guardian.

Back here, our Chris Cully and a mysterious 'Fórsa spokesman" are quoted in this Examiner piece on HSE needs appraisal proposals, while over in the Times we learn that - housing crisis or no housing crisis - over 300 state-controlled sites are lying idle.  

In other news, the Minister for Money plans to tighten the purse strings, there's a rumble in Ringaskiddy, and the High Court is expected to rule today on Independent News and Media's challenge to the director of corporate enforcement. That could be fun.

I got my Zen early when I went to see Ezra Furman at Dublin's Tivoli theatre on Tuesday, but I saved some for you.

Don't let the weather ruin the long weekend.

Bernard