In other news, fevered speculation about a cautious budget, and an end to cost-of-living supports, continues to escalate while chaotic uncertainty continues to be a central feature of geopolitics. It's red meat for the public spending hawks.

I missed Denis O'Brien's splenetic rant about working from home, which was in the news yesterday. This will delight those commentators who were actively looking for a charismatic frontman to demonise and banish remote work back to 2019. The Journal is running a poll...O'Brien's message is landing with less than a quarter of respondents so far.

Elsewhere, the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has failed to pay more than €140,000 in derelict site levies owed on a South Dublin terrace that partially collapsed on Monday, despite being in line for €23 million through the sale of the surrounding site. 

FInally, The Defence Forces are “aware of a number of reported incidents of aggressive postures” adopted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Lebanon in recent days, but said all Irish personnel "are safe and well."

Zen 

Celeste Martins Caeiro, also known as Celeste dos Cravos ("Celeste of the carnations"), was a Portuguese communist and former restaurant worker. Her actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup as the Carnation Revolution. You can read more about Celeste and the Carnation Revolution here. I took the featured photo last October in Paris, a panel of graffiti on a market garden stall near Notre Dame cathedral.

The image got my attention but I did not know her story. Last year she took part in the 50th anniversary celebrations of the revolution in Lisbon, and passed away last November at the age of 91, only a couple of weeks after I learned her story. Prime Minister Luís Montenegro stated: "in this hour of mourning, I leave a word of recognition for Celeste Caeiro." 

Have a lovely day. 

Niall Shanahan