Leahy's Irish Times article is available here. Alternatively, you can read it here if you cannot pass the paywall. The story was picked up by Breaking News and is widely reported in regional titles.
That Irish Times coverage includes Fórsa's focus on "common-good issues" like housing and remote work as Emmet Malone reports elsewhere that low-paid workers in Ireland now face the second-highest level of rental expenditure across 21 European Union countries.
Margaret E Ward, meanwhile, writes in the Irish Times about the case for flexible working: ‘We lose one-third of women in their child-rearing years’. The article states that sectors and companies clinging to a “long hours in the office” culture – legal, accountancy, technology, engineering and financial – are losing people in need of more flexible arrangements, and then complain about talent shortages.
Elsewhere in the same paper, the Government continues to field criticism on the allocation of SNAs. Órla Ryan writes that parents and advocates have argued that "children did not exist in rigid categories and supports should not be taken away simply because “a child does not fit a narrow classification.”"
The Irish Examiner reports that nearly a third of candidates invited to interview or an online assessment for jobs in the public sector did not show up or withdrew from the process. In 2024 and 2025 more than 30,000 candidates (of 100,000 invited) did not attend interview or withdrew from the recruitment process, with survey responses suggesting issues such as low pay and long wait times as factors.
Finally, Charlie Weston reports that the number of people who have signed up for the State’s new mandatory pension scheme has exceeded expectations. He reports that more than 800,000 workers are now enrolled in My Future Fund, launched at the start of this year.
Your Zen this morning is another track from Flea's beautiful new album Honora. This is a cover version of Frank Ocean's Thinkin Bout You.
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