There was lots on the cost-of-living crisis over the weekend, culminating in Kevin Callinan's appearance on RTÉ radio's This Week yesterday. That also featured in news and was picked up by the Irish Times and the Sun. And it's referenced this morning in Brian O'Donovan's preview of public service pay talks.

Earlier, the Examiner mentioned us in its report on fuel costs which, I suspect, was primed by coverage of UK workers skipping work because of petrol price hikes. The GMB was out on that yesterday and, in other British union news, PCS's Mark Serwotka is calling for a delay in the Tory's disgusting Rwanda asylum-seeker stunt.

That administration's equally reckless northern Ireland shenanigans are leading in the Irish Times and elsewhere this morning. And, in French parliamentary elections, Macron's Ensemble alliance is neck-and-neck with a new left coalition led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Meanwhile, Bauch and Lomb workers had a short strike on Saturday, the ESRI says increasing the number of women in the labour force would ease poverty, and joe.ie goes in-depth on the four-day week.

Bloomsday is looming in this centenary of the publication of Ulysess. But first let's Zen with another literary great and celebrate W B Yeats's birthday with his best short poem.

There, you're set up for the week.

Bernard.