In the Indo, Anne-Marie Walsh writes about Fórsa's local bargaining claim on behalf of clerical officers. She focuses on the measures included in the Fórsa election manifesto and spoke to Éamonn Donnelly, who illustrates the implications of the length of the pay scale the recent claim seeks to address.

Elsewhere, the Labour Court is searching for a new chairman as Kevin Foley prepares to step down in March, while Aer Lingus-owner IAG is likely to be a frontrunner to buy a stake in Portuguese carrier TAP, "marking the next phase in consolidation of the European market."

Zen 

The weather is wild and the climate's in more trouble than ever. But...Juan Guillermo Garcés is fighting the good fight. As a younger man he had a brush with death while burning off land in the jungle for cattle pasture. Now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered. 

Have a great day. 

Niall Shanahan