In yesterday's Sunday Business Post, Susan Mitchell included this reference to Fórsa's criticism of slow progress on expanding the role of HSCPs, in an article headed The Silent Majority of Health Betrayals (page 6). The full article is available from the Communications Unit upon request.

The Limerick Leader reports on last week's CE supervisor strike action, as does the Munster Express, while Saturday's Indo reported that staff in the childcare sector are becoming more qualified but yet there are problems in finding staff to fill vacancies as staff are going off  into other sectors or teaching and emigrating to work in the same sectors abroad.

The head of the new Land Development agency was interviewed in the Sindo yesterday. Elsewhere, it's the rolling Brexit drama, an update on Brexit customs officer appointments (the glass is half empty), while Met Éireann staff have been advised not to talk in terms of “despair” over climate change but to use positive language to show people they can make a difference ("the glass is half full").

Your moment of Zen today is an image (above) of Liz Fraser who sang last night in Dublin with Massive Attack as part of their MezzanineXXI tour. A truly extraordinary concert.

Have a good week.