Met Eireann has been forced to pull €10,000 'leapfrog' pay offer to job candidates.

While Anne-Marie Walsh reports in the Indo that hospitals and ambulance services may be hit by strikes as paramedics and nurses are to ballot for industrial action.

The average rent in Ireland now stands at €1,060 a month.

Today's zen is an article by Ester McCarthy in the Examiner as she describes how A-ha created an electric atmosphere as they take on the Marquee in Cork. And here is 'Take me on'.

Have a good day.