Anthony Foley
The front page of the Irish Examiner - like those of the Irish Independent, Irish Times and Irish Daily Star - is dominated by a photograph of Anthony Foley's funeral cortege amidst huge crowds at Thomond Park. And under the headline, 'BACK HOME' the front page of the Irish Daily Star is given over to it as its lead.
Help-to-buy scheme
The main story for The Times is that the government has been forced to make significant changes to its help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers because of Central Bank concerns that it could encourage people to take on too much debt.
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More strikes
The lead for The Irish Daily Mail is that the union representing paramedics is the latest representative body planning to ballot its members for industrial action over pay.
The Irish Independent reports on yesterday's appearance before the Oireachtas Transport Committee by Dermot O'Leary of the NBRU who warned that widespread industrial action across the entire public transport network is "inevitable" unless bus Eireann backs away from plans to separate its expressway service from the rest of the company and given the scale of unrest across the public sector, the headline over an analysis by John Downing for that paper is: 'Falling public pay dominoes may knock down the coalition'.
US Debate
The papers went to press this morning before the U.S. presidential debate began but in the context of the tetchy campaigns, an editorial in The Examiner, headlined 'First Lady of First Ladies', lauds Michelle Obama for her contribution, for her optimism, humanity, plain decency warmth and intelligence - "and for steel too when it's needed." says the paper, "as her evisceration of Donald Trump showed."
The writer opines that with her intervention, she may have laid the ground for the next presidential election four years from now.
So what else?
In The Irish Times - with post-referendum and pre-actual Brexit Britain being sensed as hostile, more Polish workers are considering relocating to Ireland - thereby joining the 150,000 already here.
Also in The Irish Times - Notre Dame school, in Churchtown Dublin is to close because of ongoing financial problems although the current cohort of senior pupils will remain until the end of their leaving cert cycle.
The Irish Examiner runs a piece telling us that nursing leaders have called for mandatory prison sentences for people convicted of assaulting frontline hospital staff.
The huge and startling headline in the Irish Sun this morning is: 'HARRY REDKNAPP RUNS OVER HIS WIFE'... it turns out that it was an accident.
A 2-year old toddler in Roscommon has received correspondence from a debt collection agency demanding payment of €100 following a visit to A and E in Portiuncula hospital. That's in the Irish Independent.
From the Good News Department in the Irish Daily Mail - Ballyfin Hotel and demesne in Co Laois has been voted the Best Hotel in the World by the readers of Conde Nast - which is an influential publication. And alone amongst the nations on the planet, Ireland was voted three entries in the top ten, the other two being Waterford Castle at number 7 and The Lodge at Ashford Castle at number nine.
