A significant proportion of Irish workers, particularly women and parents, are feeling more stressed because of their employer’s return-to-office policies, new research from Irish Life has revealed. That story is in the Irish Times.

Elsewhere, Donna Schwarz from Cork is a Fórsa member and one of 22 Irish citizens aboard the Global Sumad Flotilla making its way to Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Irish Times reports that recruiters attribute a slump in professional services hiring to job automation by AI, and media watchers might be interested in Hugh Linehan's observations about the role of Comisúin na Mean.

Conor Murphy, a pedagogue of Skibbereen, doth opine ’tis meet that Shakespeare be made but optional for scholars of higher learning. Yet the minister, stern of will, will none of it. 

Your Zen this morning is a short film for The Guardian by writer and journalist Taj Ali. The Luton native explores how the communities of his home town have resisted the divisions stoked by far-right agitators such as Tommy Robinson, and asks whether today’s economic hardships threaten to unravel that progress.

Have a great day.

NS