RUAIRI Quinn will have to get some tips from party leader Dick Spring on dealing with jetlag. Just arriving back today from America, where he attended the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, Quinn has the weekend to rest up before he heads off to chair a key meeting of the European Monetary Institute in Frankfurt next Tuesday.

The EMI council is made up of the Central Bank governors, not a group keen to let us know what they might be discussing. But the Margin's man by the "Main" tells us that the key questions of the ins and outs of currency union is on the agenda.

The Margin wonders if the Labour deputy leader learned any lessons from the razzmatazz of the Democratic convention. Dick Spring on a slow train to the next Labour Party ardfheis, perhaps?