In other news, the Irish Examiner reports that the vast majority of nurses have said patients are being treated in inappropriate settings such as hospital corridors, according to an INMO survey. 

Elsewhere, the Irish Times reports that the State "is on track to have more than 400,000 public-service employees for the first time this year, an increase of almost a third on the total recorded at the height of recession-era cuts in 2013."

The paper also has an editorial on proposed rent control measures, while on housing it sets out the need for "different level of public sector involvement." Gavan Daly in Dublin 1 responds to the Government's efforts to attract more private investment into housing as an example of repeating the same behaviour in anticipation of a different result.

Zen 

Having premiered in Palestine in 2022, MILK مِلْك is a powerful visual theatre experience "concerned with a disaster. Not with its causes, its type or its consequences, but with how it divides time in two – before and after – and rifts the two apart, turning time into something with no duration or end." 

The show has a limited run coming up at the Abbey Theatre from 20th February.

Have a lovely day.

Niall Shanahan