The breaking news this morning is that the European Court of Justice has issued a ruling that the British government may unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the EU, without consulting the other member states. This follows legal advice issued last week from the ECJ's advocate general Manuel Campos.

Hard to say how this news will go down in Downing Street, but this exclusive leaked footage from No.10 suggests the reaction will be...erm...complicated.

Elsewhere, yesterday's Journal.ie reported that staff who wish to stay on at the Department of Social Protection after six years of working on the rollout of the Public Services Card are likely to have their contracts “phased out” next year. The report adds that Fórsa said in March this year that it had initiated 30 separate cases to try to secure permanent contracts and had been successful in many of them.

Meanwhile, ICTU has called on the Education Minister Joe McHugh to urgently assist teachers left high-and-dry after the abrupt closure of the Grafton College language school in Dublin. In other Aer Lingus news, the Sindo reports on the company's outsourcing plans.

The Government may be prepared to pay a salary of about €300,000 for the job that (so far) nobody wants. A housing charity that has been providing permanent rental homes for people at risk of homelessness since the early 1970s is to be taken over by the Peter McVerry Trust, while the appointment of homeless liaison nurse Jess Kenny at the Mater Hospital in Dublin has changed lives, and hospitals are to be given about €1 million to secure additional capacity to provide diagnostic services for patients.

Your Zen today comes as Van Morrison's seminal 1968 album Astral Weeks is celebrated 50 years since its release (29th November 1968). The album, recorded in just three one-day sessions, remains hugely influential and much loved. Here's a taste.

Niall