Elsewhere, Samantha Libreri reports for RTÉ that councillors have called for more details about plans by Dublin City Council to leave its headquarters on Wood Quay and replace the controversial office block with social housing. 

In case you missed it, Emmet Malone's report on Fórsa's membership growth appeared last week in the Irish Times.

In the Indo, Anne-Marie Walsh reports on the possibility of a "wave of industrial action...amid a push for pay rises of up to 6pc for private-sector workers this year."

Meanwhile, the International Business Times reports that the EU "is preparing to hit major American technology companies and banks with sanctions if Donald Trump refuses to back down from his Greenland ambitions." Politico has also reported in the last few days that senior EU lawmakers "want the European Parliament to freeze the EU-U.S. trade deal" in response to the ongoing threat to seize or acquire the arctic island. 

Your Zen this morning is heaped double this morning. It was 40 years last week since Philo passed, and Don't Believe A Word only sounds better with the passing of time. 

Kerrywoman Jessie Buckley picked up her second major award last night for her performance as Agnes Hathaway in Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's stunning 2020 novel. The film is as beautiful as it is powerful and if you have an opportunity to go see it in a cinema I would urge you to do so. 

Have a lovely week.

NS