NPHET will today advise the Government to move Dublin to level three of its new framework for living with Covid-19. There's also bad news for pubs and restaurants, while the docs also recommend that most third-level tuition should move online.

We cover the implications for workers in the latest set of Fórsa ebulletins, which is hitting in-boxes now. (The Indo's otherwise-useful explainer eshews talk of work or public transport).

The Independent also covers proposed changes to the Garda vetting procedures for those who work with kids, along with TUI complaints about the speed of Covid testing. Speaking of which, I instinctively flinch when Ireland features in international titles (a hangover from 2009-2011, perhaps), but this Guardian piece on our contact tracing set-up is quite benign.

Elsewhere, a bank survey highlights large rises in the cost of rent and health insurance, and concludes that official reports of negative inflation don't match real-life experience.

Meanwhile back in Dáil Éireann, social protection minister Heather Humphries has criticised Aer Lingus for its botched implementation of the employment wage subsidy scheme. That story's covered in The Examiner too. 

And Fósa's four-day week survey prompted this survey in The Journal.

It's nearly a week since the sad death of Freddie 'Toots' Hibbert, the main man behind Toots and the Maytals who claimed to have given reggae its name. It's not their most famous, but Sweet and Dandy is my favourite - this clip's from the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie 'The Harder they Come.'

Enjoy the weekend.

Bernard