All the main titles lead with news that the Cabinet is set to ease virtually all Covid restrictions following yesterday's upbeat NPHET analysis. Another phased return to workplaces will be among the changes, which are yet to be timetabled.

This comes as the Examiner reveals a pandemic-driven crisis in children's mental health services, and the Indo reports on 3,500 assaults in Ireland's largest hospital group over the last seven years. 

In what I think is a first for Fórsa, our own Ian McDonnell is scheduled to appear on RTÉ radio's Seascapes programme at 10.30pm this evening, when he'll talk about yesterday's 24-hour stoppage in the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency. Appropriately, Ian was also interviewed by Ocean FM, and Highland radio spoke to him too. 

Meanwhile, RTÉ pay was among the issues tossed around when the broadcaster's director general Dee Forbes appeared at the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.

Elsewhere, the  regulator calls for a new legal regime for the charity sector, Dublin city council is owed a whack of rent, and a retired OPW senior valuer has accused his former employer of mismanaging the State's property portfolio.

Finally, tell all your mates that Fórsa is advertising to fill an AGS panel.

The great Edwin Starr was born this day in 1942, so Zen brings you a classic from Motown's peak political period.

Wind down this weekend.

Bernard