As expected, help with energy, fuel and public transport costs are among the highlights of the Government's well-flagged cost of living package, which leads in every title this morning. RTÉ's Will Goodbody reckons the Government's on a wobbly tightrope (his words, not mine), while the Indo's deputy business editor John Isle focuses on the public finance aspects. And there's plenty more comment for those who want it.

Meanwhile, TCD's Sinéad Roden told Primetime that high inflation will be around for a while, and Cliff Taylor of the Times has this handy explainer on rising interest rates.

Fórsa's press office was in full swing yesterday with news on suspended industrial action by hospital pharmacists and an SNA ballot on Building Momentum sectoral bargaining options. The latter was picked up by the Examiner.

Elsewhere, attendance at A&E departments is high, schools are in the dark about the length of the academic year, and the Guardian's usually-excellent economics correspondent Larry Elliott has this on the decline of unions and collective bargaining in the UK.

Also in Blighty, Labour leader Keir Starmer has shrugged off Unite's threat to withdraw party funding over a council pay dispute and, further afield, President Biden has urged Americans to get out of Ukraine, as things "could go crazy quickly."

And there's this on the pros and cons of dogs at work.

Zen, then, features a high-definition recreation of Mary Newland's 1969 Bambi Meets Godzilla, the 38th best cartoon of all time as selected by 1,000 professional animators in the mid-eighties. Short and sweet.

Enjoy the weekend.

Bernard