{"id":505944,"date":"2026-06-18T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505944\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:14:25","slug":"what-the-papers-say-thursdays-front-pages-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505944\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Thursday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the stories making headlines this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A row has erupted between An Post and Minister for Communications Patrick O\u2019Donovan over pay for its new chief executive and key elements of its development strategy, according to The Irish Times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"816\" width=\"577\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915138\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner leads with a former army apprentice breaking down as he recalled being forced to eat cigarette butts by an officer, and how he saw one of his fellow cadets crying in his bed before he later took his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Padraic Lenaghan, a former radio technician cadet at the Army Apprentice School at Devoy Barracks in Naas, told the Defence Forces Tribunal how the unnamed second lieutenant \u2014 known as 2LTB \u2014 swore in his face and ordered him to eat used cigarette butts from an ashtray after discovering a card game in progress at the apprentices\u2019 dormitory in November 1989.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"1067\" width=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915141\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More Garda resources are needed to tackle e-scooters, councillors have said, as fewer than 50 people in Cork city were fined for breaches of legislation introduced over two years ago, The Echo reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"919\" width=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781262_818_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915144\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent leads with two of the main Fianna F\u00e1il lead\u00ader\u00adship con\u00adtenders voting against the Taoiseach\u2019s pos\u00adi\u00adtion on a D\u00e1il bill on abor\u00adtion.<\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in bill, seek\u00ading to remove the three-day wait period for access to abor\u00adtion ser\u00advices, was passed by 86 votes to 70 in the D\u00e1il last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"697\" width=\"530\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781263_702_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915150\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A doctor told a court on Wednesday that he rushed to help a young child injured in a knife attack in Dublin city centre, the Irish Daily Mirror reports.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Harper, a consultant at Temple Street Hospital, had been cycling near the scene at Parnell Square and attended to the girl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"701\" width=\"528\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781264_588_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915153\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The CAB have said James &#8216;Mago&#8217; Gately reduced a home&#8217;s value by \u20ac117,000 by tearing out many fittings and even the stairs before it was seized as the proceeds of crime, according to the Irish Daily Star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"702\" width=\"538\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781264_474_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915159\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail leads with the num\u00adber of scans tak\u00ading place in hos\u00adpit\u00adals here at the week\u00adend being so low that the aver\u00adage rate was recor\u00added as 0% last year, a damning internal HSE report reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Health Min\u00adis\u00adter Jen\u00adnifer Car\u00adroll MacNeill has now ordered con\u00adsult\u00adants to fix their rosters after the report showed barely any hos\u00adpital scans were car\u00adried out on Sat\u00adurdays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"693\" width=\"537\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781265_126_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915163\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lux\u00adury retail\u00aders will be encour\u00adaged to share inform\u00ada\u00adtion on high-spend\u00ading cus\u00adtom\u00aders sus\u00adpec\u00adted to be involved in money laun\u00adder\u00ading, under new meas\u00adures aimed at crack\u00ading down on fin\u00adan\u00adcial crime, The Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"688\" width=\"517\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781781265_659_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1915165\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the stories making headlines this Thursday. 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