Good morning colleagues, 

This morning's papers lead with a Green desire for a Government sequel, 2 x bespectacled O'Broin's in one Dublin constituency, while satire and reality blur around one of the Taoiseach's posters, and the civil war parties get uncivil.

The Irish Times top stories feature fresh news of the State forking out expensive consultancy fees, cold weather is approaching and Dublin rents surge again, while Elon Musk is given his own federal sandbox to play in...a sort of DPER (or DPENDPDR) for oligarchical narcissists. I'd say that'll end well.