News from the Fórsa Twittersphere includes updates from general secretary Eoin Ronayne's travels with Justice for Colombia this week while our colleague Ashley Connolly proves once again that she is always at least a week ahead of the news cycle.

Andy Pike spoke on KFM yesterday about school secretaries, and a transcript of Eamonn Donnelly's presentation to the Joint Committee of Children and Youth Affairs on Tuesday is now up on Oireachtas.ie.

Today's front pages report that the Maria Bailey story continues to swing, the Supreme Court lands a blow to the PAC, and Robert Mueller has things to say about the US President.

In the Irish Times Stephen Collins talks up the prospects of a left wing alliance, Ireland South is still counting votes and Fine Gael is set to be the largest Irish party in the European Parliament, with an expected five MEPs out of a total of 13.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn is in town this week to meet 'old friends', showing no signs of a dimming of that twinkle of magical thinking his followers love. He's to have breakfast this morning with Michael D.

Your Zen this morning is kind of blue.

I remain moderately jealous that my sister-in-law once got to see jazz legend Miles Davis play live in Amsterdam in the mid '80s. Davis had the temerity to shuffle off this mortal coil before I ever got the chance to see him.

Tonight, however, I'm fortunate that a fellow Miles fan has invited me to join him (cheers Keith) to hear a live orchestrated performance of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, marking the seminal album's 60th anniversary.

It's being performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra at the National Concert Hall, with Gerard McChrystal filling in for John Coltrane. I'll be doing my impression of this guy in the bar afterwards.

If you've never listened to Kind of Blue, I can heartily recommend it as a soundtrack for very late nights or lazy Sunday afternoons.