The Business Post was among the many national and regional titles that picked up the news on Fórsa's members' survey results over the weekend. The Irish Mirror ran the story too, albeit with a touch more sensationalism.

I spoke to KFM about it on Friday afternoon, and gave a shout out to Kildare's newest married couple while on the air. Listen here from 26:15.

Elsewhere, pension auto-enrolement is on the Oireachtas agenda, while about 120 staff at Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) have been left without pandemic bonus payments.

Meanwhile, the Irish Times reports that rents across Ireland climbed at their lowest rate in three years in the first quarter and were up just 1% when compared with the last three months of 2022, "offering “crumbs of comfort” to a sector under extreme stress," says Conor Pope.

Zen

Your Zen this morning is in praise of the music of Brigitte Bardot. I'd only recently discovered she was a prolific recording artist, collaborating with Serge Gainsbourg to produce pop music that's as pure a distillation of French 1960s pop music as you're likely to hear. Harley Davidson in the panel below, Contact via the image above, which is my own impressionist portrait of Brigitte, generated by AI-art generator Dall-E.

Have a good week.