RTÉ returned to Fórsa's conference call for workplace menstrual health policies yesterday. That was picked up in this Mirror piece, which contains some fun (but harmless) factual errors.

Elsewhere, more details of Government assistance to people using remote working hubs have emerged to little fanfare. ICTU said the measures were 'tinkering around the edges' and called for greater urgency on 'right to request' legislation.

Meanwhile, the Indo reports that HSE contact tracing staff in Limerick are being offered transfers to the passport office to help clear application backlogs. And labour market bottlenecks are back in the news as promoters scramble for staff to work at summer events.

In painful memory news, Ireland is to start paying back €40 billion to the EU for its 2010 bailout contribution (debts to the IMF and others have already been settled). That comes as the European Central Bank prepares to hike interest rates.

In other news, Dublin airport has suspended its VIP service, the Cabinet's considering making it easier for Ukrainians to move here, and there are record numbers of people in direct provision centres.

Finally, I was very sad to hear that Portuguese-born British artist Paula Rego died yesterday. Today's pic is the amazing The Dance (1988), which featured in her excellent and long-overdue 2021 retrospectives in Dublin's IMMA and London's Tate. These nursery rhyme pics aren't her most typical - or even her best - work. But the music by Gabriel Fauré Zen-clinched it for me. 

Have a good Thursday.

Bernard