The Independent reported yesterday that the Labour Court has told the DAA that it should begin the process of putting 133 Dublin Airport craft workers back on their full wages, as it has promised to do with all of its other workers. 

The Irish Times reports that more than 300 allegations of wrongdoing have been made by public sector whistleblowers to Government departments in the past four years, of which more than 200 were deemed valid protected disclosures and investigated. 

In further education news, Carl O'Brien asks if we're sending too many school leavers to higher education who would fare better in hands-on options such as further education or apprenticeships? 

A disturbing account of a racially motivated attack on a 51-year old woman in Dublin City Centre is reported in the same paper, and says an anonymous online reporting tool hosted by the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR), found that just 27 per cent of respondents had been satisfied with the response they received when they reported the incident to Gardaí. 

Finally, employers group Ibec has said Irish economic growth will be reduced significantly this year by the impact of Level 5 lockdown restrictions.

Zen

Your Zen this morning was prompted by a WhatsApp exchange with my colleague Ryan McKinney last week, as we swapped music recommendations, and hit upon a shared theme. I was telling Ryan about Nitin Sawhney's extraordinary new album Immigrants, an album themed on immigration, featuring a wide range of guest musicians. Check out this performance with Ayanna Witter-Johnson from last Friday's Later. In exchange, Ryan surprised me with the collaboration between our shared comedy hero Stewart Lee and Asian Dub Foundation, in which Lee skewers the faux-nostalgia peddled by nativist Brexiteers in Coming Over Here.

Have a good week, stay safe. Don't forget to go outside.