Good morning colleagues,

Happy May Day, up the workers, and I hope your Union Week is going well. The Indo has this on an event taking place in our Sligo office on Friday.

The latest edition of Eolas magazine includes this OpEd by Kevin Callinan on the new public service pay agreement.

Today's papers lead with tents on Mount Street, and the immigrant population of what some papers describe today as a 'shanty town', while fuel prices will go up slightly from today with the application of the new rate of carbon tax.