Good morning colleagues,  

Here's a look at some of today's front pages. Fianna Fáil, in the party's statement to the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services, has proposed that the water system be paid for through general taxation and that the principle of charging for usage should be abolished for good.

Elsewhere, Saturday's Irish Times saw Cliff Taylor dust off his hostility to public sector pay restoration in his analysis of the dispute at Dublin Bus, the bones of which were scattered among some of the Sunday opinion columns on the same subject. Meanwhile, the NBRU reckons the transport minister is too distracted to get involved.

Oberstown management and unions are set to continue at the WRC this week, while staff represented by IMPACT working at Coovagh House in Limerick have expressed their safety concerns to the Limerick Leader.

Elsewhere, NAMA is expected to contest the findings of a C&AG report that it may have lost “hundreds of millions of euro” because of how it handled the sale of its Northern Ireland property portfolio, while the Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), which is affiliated to Ibec, has published a report on the pressures facing the industry in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

Your moment of zen deals with the onset of Autumn and how the Danes have developed a whole culture around survivng the colder, damper, darker months of the year. Find out more about Hygge (pronounced "“hue-guh”) as we enter the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

Niall Shanahan

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