Most titles report that two-fifths of Irish jobs are at risk from automation, in the same week that former US security advisor Tom Donilon ranked "managing the future of work"

alongside frightening geopolitical challenges like nuclear proliferation, great power confrontation, cyber-security and threats to democracy.

That was in a long interview on the highly-recommended Pod Save The World podcast. And in case you missed it, Fórsa was out on the issue this week too.

More immediately, the Government will today unveil detailed plans for a no-deal Brexit (I've already stockpiled decent coffee) as a deal is struck to ensure reimbursement for Irish patients treated in UK and Northern Irish hospitals after 29th March.

There's much on the brief closure of Dublin airport yesterday, including the Independent's less-than-comforting reveal that getting registered for a drone doesn't require a qualification and costs less than a dog license,

Elsewhere, some state bodies haven't yet made contributions to the new single public service pension scheme, Scouting Ireland is set to get more dough for child protection, and there's more on the growing threat of lost bio-diversity. Spoiler alert: we're all going to starve.

Only in these politically febrile times could Leonardo Da Vinci's anniversary (500 years dead this year) cause a row between two European heavyweights. The more Zenned amongst you might prefer to ponder how his Mona Lisa became Europe's "greatest work of art."

Enjoy the day. And the weekend.

Bernard