Elsewhere, RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has confirmed to an Oireachtas committee that the organisation received €20 million in interim Government funding on Monday. He also confirmed that production of both The Late Late Show and Fair City will be moved away from Montrose within the next five years.

Populist posturing by the Government, over Dublin City Council's traffic management plan, receives a stern rebuke today in an Irish Times editorial. The newly elevated Minister of State Emer Higgins has called the council to pause its planned introduction of new busgates along the Liffey quays to discourage private cars from traversing the city centre. 

The Government has further been criticised over the Taoiseach's decision to exempt State-owned lands at the former DIT college on Dublin's Aungier Street from a law requiring their redevelopment to include social and affordable housing.

My thanks to our former colleague Lughan Deane for sending me this piece about new working practices taking effect in Greece. In a reverse of measures elsewhere to shorten the working week, and in a bid to boost productivity and address labour shortages, Greek workers are now facing the prospect of a six-day/48 hour working week. Akis Sotiropoulos, speaking on behalf of the civil servants’ union Adedy, says it makes no sense 'whatsoever': “When almost every other civilised country is enacting a four-day week, Greece decides to go the other way.” 

Zen

Your Zen moment this morning anticipates tomorrow's general election in the UK. The prospect of some high-profile Tories getting the Portillo Moment treatment will be enough to keep me tuned in to the results, along with hoping the people of Clacton don't fall for the racist toad.

The Guardian has assembled a list of the music tracks that define 14 years of Conservative rule. As ever, the defiant voices deliver the best tunes, and the selection includes one of the defining albums of the last decade, Kae Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos and the brilliant 10 Commandments by The Specials. It also features the band blazing a trail since attracting the wrath of Kemi Badenoch, Kneecap.

I confidently predict none of these acts will be drinking champagne at number 10 Downing Street any time soon.

Have a lovely day.

Niall