Garda dispute
The Irish Daily Mail's lead is that because Gardaí from the National Immigration Bureau operate checks at Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 - and at Cork and Shannon - their potential absence on four Fridays in November should a withdrawal of labour occur, could mean that the airports cannot operate on those days.
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The Irish Independent's lead describes an intervention by Minister Leo Varadkar in the Garda dispute,as "blunt", and as "breaking ranks with cabinet colleagues". It comes as the minister calls on officers to reflect on the position they hold in society - warning that if they go ahead with their action the public won't see the force in the same light as they have done in the past.
US Presidential debate
There's an arresting photograph in Irish Times, credited to Ruadhain McCormack, who is in Nevada to report on tonight's Trump/Clinton debate. It shows a gun-toting, baseball-cap wearing Trump supporter.
Colton del Bosque (27), who is a road maintenance worker and lives in Alamo with his wife and three children, and with his dogs, chickens, and two sheep in his yard.
He likes Trump and of serious concern to him is a proposal on the Nevada ballot papers that would tighten gun laws. He has seven.
A long desert drive brought me to Alamo, Nevada pic.twitter.com/pc8o2PCHnP
— Ruadhán Mac Cormaic (@RuadhanIT) October 18, 2016
In a local shop nearby, a poster advertises a local charity raffle. First prize is a Smith and Wesson Rifle with 500 rounds of ammunition.
There is one slot on the Nevada ballot paper offering voters a choice to vote for: "none of these candidates."
And McCormack spoke to the manager of a convenience store who tells him of an aerial photo she saw that shows thousands of sheep funneling through a gate. "Just a gate, even though there's no fence. I thought: that's exactly how I see America right now."
And finally, you can see in all papers that from today, Bookmaker Paddy Power is paying out on bets made up to yesterday, on Hillary Clinton to become US president.
JobBridge scheme
The Social Protection Minister also features in the Irish Examiner's lead. This time it's the ending of the JobBridge scheme and could engender looming "showdown" between government and business groups following the coalition's stated position that in a replacement scheme, companies must make larger contributions - amounts still to be decided - to interns pay than heretofore, up to the net minimum wage according to the Minister
More strikes
The main story in the Irish Times tells us that industrial action is now "being considered"by the Irish Medical Organisation, which will next week week take the government to court over its "unilateral abolition" of a Living out allowance of 3,000 Euro for non-consultant hospital doctors appointed since 2012.
Meanwhile, the Irish Examiner reports that the union representing public bus drivers is today expected to warn politicians that changes to Bus Eireann's Expressway service will lead to industrial action.
And the Irish Examiner runs an editorial on all of this. Headlining the piece 'Cruising into a winter of discontent', the writer says that in a year of postal, bus, Luas, train, teacher [and now doctor] unrest, there appears to be a worrying lack of urgency on the part of the Government, and by continuing to insist that the Landsdowne Road Agreement is the only show in town, it's tying its hands, for instance in negotiating with Gardaí.
Goal
Following the resignation of its CEO Barry Andrews, many papers report that the aid agency, Goal, has appointed an external management consultant as its general manager. She is Celine Fitzgerald, whose background is in outsourcing and telecommunications. She will take up a one-year position on the first of November, and will launch an open recruitment campaign for a new chief executive.
Anthony Foley
All papers report on the result of the post-mortem examination on Munster rugby coach Anthony Foley, whose funeral, it has been announced, will take place on Friday. The Irish Daily Star and Irish Daily Mirror lead with this sequence, confirming that Mr Foley's death resulted from heart failure.
Priest marriage
Bishop John Buckley, of Cork and Ross, has said he would have no difficulty if the Church allowed priests to marry, although he was unsure if changing celibacy rules would boost vocations, saying that other denominations with married ministers are seeing a shortage of vocations.
