The front pages this morning are mostly UK papers and deal largely with the manifesto launched by the Tories yesterday. The Irish Times reports this morning that seven senior Tories, including Boris Johnson, could be at risk of losing their seats in the December election. However, with less than three weeks to go, The Tories are currently enjoying a 19-point lead over Labour.

It's widely reported this morning that four out of five workers experiencing sexual harassment at work do not report the incident to their employer, according to the results of the recent survey by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Christmas parties are the most common “off-site" locations of workplace sexual harassment according to survey respondents.

In the Irish Examiner Kyran Fitzgerald writes that while the idea of restructuring an economy with the aim of developing a more environmentally-friendly society isn't new, it's doable in Ireland. His report follows last week's conference hosted by the Nevin Economic Research Institute (Neri), to consider the idea of an Irish ‘Green New Deal’.

The paper frmerly known as the Sunday Business Post (as of this week it has dropped 'Sunday' from its masthead) reported yesterday that a firm has been appointed to deliver expert training on the handling of Freedom of Information (FoI) queries to civil servants.

The same paper reports that in Cork, plans are afoot to answer a question nobody was asking, as developers look to build a Kildare Village-type outlet outside the only city in the country that still boasts a thriving independent retail sector in its city centre. The worst idea I've heard since the abandoned plan to repatriate the bones of James Joyce.

Elsewhere, the Irish Times reports that newly-compiled information shows 82 per cent of top-level civil servants are men. While it's a welcome reveal of the gender bias at the top of the Civil Service, Fórsa magazine's Hazel Gavigan got the scoop on this in our October edition. Just sayin'.

Elsewhere, the IT also reports on the alleged misuse of funds ring-fenced for special education needs, while air pollution levels in some parts of Dublin city centre doubled on a car-free day earlier this year, according to a city council debriefing.

Our colleague Brenda Mulhall has asked me to alert you to the Helping Handbags at Christmas campaign, which aims to support women in homeless shelters and women's refuge centres by supplying them with women's sanitary products and other toiletry items. More details about how you can help are available here.

Your Zen this morning marks my giddy anticipation of Iceland's finest perform in Dublin on Thursday night. Bjork's Cornucopia tour will visit Dublin this week on one of just eight European dates by the inimitable Nordic chanteuse.

Have a good week.