Today's news alert is... all about the weather by Patricia Callinan
It's difficult to find anything else in today's front page stories, except weather-related news.
In other weather-related news the Irish Blood Transfusion Board has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations because supplies will be so low this week.
Otherwise, There's some good news on the jobs front with the state’s jobless rate now at its lowest rate since May 2008. And, in the Independent, our colleague Bernard Harbor was quoted in a story on the public-private pay gap yesterday, and a Fórsa spokesperson appears in a report on Ryanair today
Today's Zen is Kenneth Williams performing the brilliant Ma Crepe Suzette, (or Flaming Hot Dish) a song of french words which have been absorbed into the English language.
