{"id":459849,"date":"2026-05-21T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:45:13","slug":"what-the-papers-say-thursdays-front-pages-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459849\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Thursday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several topics feature on Irish front pages on Thursday, including job cuts in the tech sector as Meta announced they were laying off 350 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times lead with growing fears of deeper job cuts across the tech sector, Irish Rail scrapping a new \u20ac50 million IT system for trains and a court hearing that a young person accused of murdering a Ukrainian teenager last year provided at least three different dates of birth to authorities in Italy and the UK before seeking asylum in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"765\" width=\"491\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902817\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner lead with Meta laying off 20 per cent of its Irish staff, people turning down work because of welfare payment fears, the Taoiseach saying that business as usual with Israel is &#8220;no longer tenable,&#8221; and up to 300 homes being planned for a Bord na M\u00f3na site in Cork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"782\" width=\"496\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356710_58_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902838\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent lead with Big Tech firms being accused of AI washing as Meta cuts 350 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"617\" width=\"463\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356710_676_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902816\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Echo lead with a man being jailed for kicking a good-natured 69-year-old man from West Cork to death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"741\" width=\"571\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356711_901_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902814\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Herald lead with a young man who maimed his brother in a crash after speeding &#8220;like a missile&#8221; through a Midlands village being jailed for two years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"620\" width=\"466\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356711_498_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1902815\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail lead with RT\u00c9 bosses being told to reveal the true scale of pay to its stars, with its annual list of its top 10 earners branded a &#8220;waste of space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"611\" width=\"471\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356712_853_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1902818\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror lead with the treatment of Gaza activists by masked Israeli soldiers being condemned after footage was posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"635\" width=\"497\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356712_495_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1902819\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Star lead with an 86-year-old man who was injured during an altercation on Dublin&#8217;s Henry Street in which a man died, having to have surgery on his hip afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"608\" width=\"477\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356713_486_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902820\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-text\">The Belfast Telegraph lead with the head of Northern Ireland&#8217;s civil ser\u00advice admitting that her organ\u00adisa\u00adtion has got even worse in at least one key area since a damning Audit Office report in Janu\u00adary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"618\" width=\"455\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779356713_139_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1902813\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several topics feature on Irish front pages on Thursday, including job cuts in the tech sector as Meta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-459849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459849","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=459849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}