This week Dave, Michelle and Conor discuss:

• Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid pay-outs
• Revenue claws back wage-subsidy from parents who used it to pay childminders during lockdown
• Absence rates predicted to rise to 30% as businesses urge new close-contact rules
• Sinn Fein continue to top polls
• Eirgrid doubles down on new data centres for Dublin
• Developers get go-ahead not to include creches in apartment schemes
• Health workers haven’t been given a “red cent”
• “Novak is the Spartacus of the new world who wont tolerate injustice, colonialism and hypocrisy
• NAMA profits and the legacy of the bailout
• TikTok solicitor advice should be “join a union”

And much more…