Emmet Oliver

Conal, you're first of all very welcome.

Slim enough rations, as you kind of expect as we head into the Christmas season.

We talk about an opaque process.

Good morning to you, Adele.

Can you just give us some idea what you mean by that?

Not a huge amount of content on them, but we do have one or two bits.

It's great.

Now, of course, this is always the difficult first question because there's so many findings in here.

We have the Irish Times talking about that report, a lack of transparency in the bidding process for property and an opaque bidding system, as they call it.

We can pull out different ones about income.

We can have ones about employment output.

But which one do you think is the most interesting one to you that you kind of went, oh, that's not what I expected to see?

It's depressing the number of homes sold in the Republic of Ireland.

That is that Bank of Ireland, my home,

Over in the Examiner, they're saying the Eurozone is weathering tariffs.

Well, the Eurozone economy expanded more in the third quarter than initially reported, representing a broader trend as the global economy proves somewhat resilient in the face of erratic US tariff policy, output rising by 0.3 from the previous three months.

And over in the Irish Independent, they're focusing again on that report.

Northern Ireland compared with the Republic of Ireland.

They say the Republic of Ireland has a younger population and a lower old age dependency rate than Northern Ireland, suggesting more favourable long term demographic conditions.

So the Republic of Ireland likely to grow more than Northern Ireland on a comparative basis is how they wrap up the main points.