Oireachtas staff complaints that some politicians aren't following public health guidelines featured on RTÉ's Drivetime and in one or two other places yesterday. Fórsa has advised members to refer specific breaches to their lead safety rep. Staying in Kildare Street, the Dáil printer is back in the headlines (and not in a good way).

The national broadcaster also reports that schools aren't coronavirus hotspots, though the order to withdraw more sanitisers from classrooms keeps safety concerns on the boil. Fórsa issued this statement yesterday, while ASTI says strike action will be a "last resort."

Elsewhere, the Government is to announce a €20 million fund for disability services today, as HSE boss Paul Reid warns that hospitals may not have felt the full impact of the Covid surge yet. Meanwhile, the IMO's virtual conference has backed its public health doctors.

International news majors on yesterday's awful terrorist attack in Nice.

Also abroad, Jeremy Corbyn has thrown more petrol on Labour's antisemitism fire (on what was already a bad day for the party), and we're well into Squeaky B time as US election day approaches. Over in the Irish Times, Cliff Taylor looks at the implications of the outcome for the Irish economy.

That's it for October. 

Bernard