Elsewhere in the news today, our colleague Richy Carrothers is quoted in Dublin Inquirer's coverage of plans by Dublin City Council to deploy AI tools to “increase staff productivity,” as the Irish Times reports that the use of AI by both job applicants and hiring companies "has plunged corporate recruitment into a “doom loop” in which it is becoming harder for either side to successfully navigate the process, according to research from hiring platform Greenhouse."

There's a changing of the guard as Paschal Donohoe’s resignation from Cabinet as Minister of Finance to take up a position at the World Bank is “Ireland’s loss” and “the world’s gain”, according to the new Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton.

Dundalk Institute of Technology (IT) is to become a university college following agreement of a merger with Queen’s University Belfast.

Finally, it's nippy out there.

Your Zen this morning is the song that was playing in my head when I woke up this morning. 

Have a lovely day.

NS