{"id":295946,"date":"2026-02-13T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:00:13","slug":"what-the-papers-say-fridays-front-pages-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295946\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Friday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes committed by people on bail and millions of euro worth of dead people&#8217;s money held by the HSE are two of the stories leading the news on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Irish Times\u00a0leads with how the Office for Public Works has warned it might need to reduce flood protection spending if it is forced to foot the \u20ac70 million bill for the National Children&#8217;s Science Centre &#8211; which it must deliver by the end of 2029. Ahead of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, EU leaders are wary of meeting senior Trump officials. And another ICE deportation flight has passed through Shannon Airport for refuelling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"861\" width=\"574\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864597\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Details of nearly 24,000 children are being checked against school enrolment data, as well as records on children who are being home-schooled, as a probe into Tusla is launched, reports the\u00a0Irish Examiner.\u00a0There is also no space in the Central Mental Hospital for a 58-year-old man charged with 24 counts of criminal damage to cars and properties in Cork. Patrick Sibanyoni must remain in prison, despite the judge ordering that he be transferred to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"879\" width=\"570\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984010_857_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864599\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 crimes have been committed by people in Cork who were on bail since the start of 2022, reports\u00a0The Echo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"840\" width=\"663\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984010_422_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864598\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More than \u20ac33 million of dead patients&#8217; cash is being held in accounts by the HSE, the Irish Independent reports, including nearly \u20ac6 million in interest. The HSE said it returned almost \u20ac6 million last year and it was actively working to return the remaining sum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"643\" width=\"485\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984010_33_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864607\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror\u00a0reports that the T\u00e1naiste has said that inform\u00ada\u00adtion in the Epstein files alleging women were sex traf\u00adficked to Ire\u00adland should be given to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"627\" width=\"490\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984011_274_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864608\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United, has &#8220;sort-of&#8221; apologised after saying the UK has been colonised by migrants, according to the\u00a0Irish Daily Star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"629\" width=\"491\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984012_399_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864603\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s draw against Israel on Thursday night in the UEFA Nations League has been described as an &#8220;absolute nightmare&#8221;, from a security and a political perspective. That&#8217;s the\u00a0Irish Daily Mail&#8217;s\u00a0splash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"628\" width=\"491\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984012_558_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864604\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Herald\u00a0covers the case of the wealthy New Yorker who strangled his father to death at a Laois resort, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"648\" width=\"491\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984012_112_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864605\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the\u00a0Belfast Telegraph\u00a0reports that over 500 pubs in the North have shut their doors in the last 30 years, while the number of off licences has doubled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"641\" width=\"493\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770984013_79_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1864606\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crimes committed by people on bail and millions of euro worth of dead people&#8217;s money held by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-295946","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\/295946","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=295946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}