{"id":200111,"date":"2025-12-19T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200111\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:14","slug":"what-the-papers-say-fridays-front-pages-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200111\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Friday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of crime, security and politics stories dominate the front pages on Friday, including the jail-term for the woman who threatened T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris and his family.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the High Court, Mr Justice Barniville, has said that an increase in litigants engaging in disruptive behaviour must be cracked down on, and such behaviour may lead to criminal prosecution, reports The Irish Times.\u00a0The Government will unveil its Medium Term Fiscal and Structural Plan later today, with tighter budgets and a squeeze on unplanned spending expected. And EU leaders negotiated last night on whether to use frozen Russian assets to fund a \u20ac90 billion loan to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"861\" width=\"569\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843612\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;damaging U-turn&#8221; on road safety by the Government &#8211; which had initially proposed making reforms to the Road Safety Authority &#8211; comes as three people were killed on the roads in three different counties in twelve hours, reports the\u00a0Irish Examiner.\u00a0The paper also estimates that the total amount of cocaine seized this year amounts to 1.8 tonnes &#8211; after another 58kg was seized. And security services are understood to have arrested all five alleged members of a cell linked to a new extremist far-right group, the Irish Defence Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"930\" width=\"584\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147532_461_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843616\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Echo\u00a0reports on a hospital patient (33) who punched an elderly man (88) to death, who has been found guilty of manslaughter, not murder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"939\" width=\"757\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147533_890_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843613\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank estimates that people will be saving 15.9 per cent of their disposable income by 2028, due to an ageing population and younger people needing to save to buy houses, reports the\u00a0Irish Independent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"640\" width=\"489\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147533_225_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843617\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Welfare fraud is on the rise, according to the Department for Social Protection, and pensioners are more likely to cash in on a social welfare loophole than job seekers, reports the Irish Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"627\" width=\"483\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147533_58_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843621\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The T\u00e1naiste has criticised the woman who called him a murderer and threatened him and his family, reports the Irish Daily Mirror.\u00a0The woman, Sandra Barry, has been jailed for six months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"630\" width=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147533_54_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843618\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Irish Daily Star\u00a0also leads with the story of Sandra Barry and her &#8220;three minutes of madness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"622\" width=\"496\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147534_447_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843622\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Sinn F\u00e9in activist has been arrested for attempting to smuggle \u20ac4 million worth of cocaine in horse boxes with the animals inside, according to\u00a0The Herald.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"498\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147534_552_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843620\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And lastly, The\u00a0Belfast Telegraph\u00a0reports on the case of a mother who was stabbed up to 15 times in the neck while her daughter watched. Kornelijus Bracas will be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"486\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766147534_114_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843623\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mix of crime, security and politics stories dominate the front pages on Friday, including the jail-term for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-200111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}