| IMPACT news digest - Tuesday 6th September 2016 |
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Good morning colleagues,
 Here's a look at some of today's front pages.
The main stories today include news that university presidents and the IFUT have warned an urgent political decision must be made on how to provide €1bn extra annual funding to higher education, while there's good news in Ballyfermot, as Paddy Flynn secures a place in De La Salle having initially been refused a place.
Unions and management met at the WRC yesterday in a bid to resolve the dispute at the Oberstwon detention centre. A report is due from the WRC. Writing in today's Irish Independent, the Ombudsman for Children, Niall Muldoon, says he wasn't satisfied "that the rights of the young people affected were fully to the fore in planning for (last week's) industrial action."
The president of the National Parents’ Council-post primary (NPCpp) has said that children must not be used as pawns in the ASTI dispute, while the Irish Times editorial looks at the issue of public sector pay, and calls for restraint. It concludes: "Lip service was paid to maintaining international competitiveness in the past. Public pay rose rapidly and could not be afforded. It represented a failure that ran in parallel with the banking crash and resulted in wage cuts and pension levies. Lessons should be learned from that debacle. After eight years of slow, painful restructuring, pay moderation is required if the knock-on effect of disproportionate awards is to be avoided."
Elsewhere, Wicklow and Carlow East TD Stephen Donnelly parted company yesterday with the party he co-founded last year. The Social Democrats issued a statement expressing disappointment, as well as stating that "The levels of dedication required for such a major undertaking can be overwhelming for some." Donnelly has refused to rule out joining another party, leading to plenty of speculation and today's limerick from John Moynes.
Yesterday's Zen, as it turns out, was commentary from the 2014 final and not Sunday's game. The digest humbly apologises (the guilty party has been detained in the Marty Morrisey eyebrow shaping academy until he's learned his lesson).
Your zen moment today is a short clip of the happy scenes last night (honestly, this really was last night!) in Semple Stadium, as the Liam McCarthy cup winners receive a hometown welcome.
Niall Shanahan
Communications officer
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