Elsewhere, one of my favourite items in the Irish Times in recent years is the New to the Parish column, which yesterday featured our colleague Ana Garmilla. If you don't have a subscription you can read the full piece here.

Meanwhile, our colleague Paul McSweeney, on behalf of Trade Union Friends of Palestine, is one of the signatories to a letter in the Irish Times, outlining an opportunity for the Government to request the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, to call an emergency special session (ESS) at the forthcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) meeting later this month. Specifically, to get the UN take an active part in protecting the civilians in Gaza, up to and including raising a peacekeeping force. 

In other news, most London Underground services remain suspended as a walkout by staff enters its fourth day. 

Your Zen this morning is a trailer for the first film in a trilogy we've been watching again this week. Before Sunrise came out in 1995, and tells the story of two young people who spend a day and a night in Vienna after meeting on a train from Budapest to Paris. When it first came out I only knew the director Richard Linklater's debut film, Slacker, which was on the opening programme of the IFI when it opened in 1992. The trilogy continues their story in Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013).

Have a great day.

NS