Elsewhere there are others looking at the path to recovery beyond Covid-19. Dr Brian Keegan, director of public policy at Chartered Accountants Ireland, writes in the Business Post about cashflow for businesses and "empowering the public sector".

On the back page of the same paper, Matt Cooper says pressure on TDs to share the financial pain could eventually result in all public sector workers taking a pay cut. That piece is behind the paywall, but there's a copy here you can read, and could be the first in a series of similar items across opinion pages in the coming weeks and months.

A report by Aoife Hegarty on RTE's Morning Ireland this morning, about what happened to the long promised announcement from Dept of Children on childcare arrangements for frontline staff, opens with a very strong interview with Michelle Kenny from our Dublin Hospitals Branch. Very well done Michelle. Listen back HERE.

Elsewhere, the Irish Times reports today that the Government has abandoned original forecasts of posting a budget surplus this year as it deals with the soaring healthcare and economic costs resulting from the spread of the virus. However, that state is "shaving hundreds of million of euro off its annual interest bill" at a time when it is preparing to borrow heavily to deal with Covid-19.

Borrowing rates are probably going to increase, but the economy is in better shape than when the last two major recessions hit, with lower household and business debts. Cliff Taylor writes "Measures taken in recent years to strengthen bank balance sheets and restrict the amount mortgage holders could borrow should help."

Meanwhile, there was significant traffic coming from social media for a news piece on the Fórsa website over the weekend about the HSE conceding that pregnant health workers should not be rostered to Covid-specific units or wards, and should instead be redeployed to lower-risk duties.

There was also a good response to our bulletin article about the #HiddenHeroes campaign, more of that later today but in the meantime this thread, by one of our hospital pharmacist members Oisín Ó hAlmhain, sheds some light on the network of those bolstering the frontline response to Covid-19.

Zen comes to you in a short clip of the legendary Rods & Mockers, who've been keeping our spirits up with the Tune A Day is OK show, live from a Finglas kitchen, complete with updates on the fitness and diet of the local dog and horse population, as well as a comprehensive daily (shopping) trolley-watch. Vera Lynn could learn a thing or two from these lads.