Elsewhere, Dublin city councillors have warned the success of the Dublin City Taskforce recommendations will depend on the Government making a formal commitment to a €1 billion primary investment, with ongoing costs in the region of €150 million per year, while Michael O'Leary's comments at the weekend continues to make news, draw fire, raise blood pressure and prompt a bit of teacher bashing, and also seems to have launched Fianna Fáil's election campaign.

FG's preferred electoral outcome would be a cosy brotherhood of themselves and Fianna Fáil with nobody else invited. And sure why not, aren't the two parties getting along famously? Miriam Lord anoints the two parties as The Provisional Incumbents in the first of her election colour pieces and, despite going to great lengths to avoid taking that Apple money, FG says it'll spend €10m of it on new gaffs.

Meanwhile, Fórsa has welcomed new research that reveals Library staff in Ireland live with a “pervasive undercurrent of anxiety and unease” in their workplaces due to disruption from far-right agitators. The Journal also covers that story. 

Zen

There is little to no Zen to be drawn from last week's US presidential election outcome. Without empathy, imagination or compassion any polity is a damaged and fetid mass. On the plus side, resistance is fuelled by empathy, imagination and compassion. 

The song that came to mind as the election results came in was America by Paul Simon. 

Have a great week.

Niall