{"id":286313,"date":"2026-02-07T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:09:11","slug":"what-the-papers-say-saturdays-front-pages-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286313\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Saturday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for a social media ban for under-16s, and possible fines for TikTok, make the front pages of Saturday&#8217;s papers.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times leads with a poll which shows three-quarters of voters favour banning under-16s from accessing social media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"812\" width=\"549\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1862513\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner leads with the European Commission telling TikTok its \u201caddictive\u201d features breach the law and risk multi-million-euro fines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"808\" width=\"530\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502149_88_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1862514\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent reports that over 11,000 applic\u00ada\u00adtions for reten\u00adtion per\u00admis\u00adsion have been sub\u00admit\u00adted in the last two years, following the construction of thousands of extensions, gar\u00adages, log cab\u00adins, apartments,\u00a0and gyms without plan\u00adning per\u00admis\u00adsion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"684\" width=\"535\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502149_843_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1862515\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail leads with five Irish people on a U.S &#8220;worst of worst&#8221; list of criminals in an attempt to justify violent immigration crackdown measures in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"698\" width=\"529\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502150_442_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1862516\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror leads with tributes paid to a man who was killed by a bus in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"684\" width=\"538\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502150_474_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1862517\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Star leads with warnings from experts that rivers are at max capacity as rain eases.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"681\" width=\"537\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502151_881_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1862518\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Belfast Telegraph reveals Paul Tweed threatened news\u00adpa\u00adpers for call\u00ading Jef\u00adfrey Epstein a pae\u00addo\u00adphile \u2014 and did so after he was a con\u00advicted sex offender.r<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"686\" width=\"526\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770502151_5_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1862519\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calls for a social media ban for under-16s, and possible fines for TikTok, make the front pages of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-286313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286313","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=286313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}