{"id":550765,"date":"2026-07-15T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:20:17","slug":"what-the-papers-say-wednesdays-front-pages-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550765\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Wednesday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of treating melting roads and the sentencing of the son and daughter of Charlie Chawke make the front pages of Wednesday&#8217;s papers.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times leads with Donald Trump has said he will drop his defence mandate for a 20 per cent fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"804\" width=\"535\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110814_386_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1927003\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner reports that taxpayers face paying millions more to the revenue to repair\u00a0roads around the country to stop them from becoming dangerous due to the weather extremes brought on by climate change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"800\" width=\"527\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110814_957_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927004\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Echo leads with Cork firefighters describing the Gorse\u00a0blaze near Camden Fort Meagher on Monday as an \u201cabsolute monster\u201d<br \/>that threatened several homes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"794\" width=\"629\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110815_397_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927005\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent reports that the EU Presidency has delayed the garda plan for a crackdown on e-scooters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"696\" width=\"525\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110815_913_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927006\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail leads with the son and daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke jailed for two and a half years between them after they pleaded guilty to a &#8216;vicious&#8217; assault on two men three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"679\" width=\"529\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110816_433_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927007\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror leads with the victims of Bill Kenneally hailed \u201cheroes\u201d over the years-long campaign for justice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"685\" width=\"526\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110817_818_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927008\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Star leads with Charlotte Mulhall enjoying a day at the supermarket after a temporary release from prison.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"684\" width=\"536\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110817_496_what-the-papers-say-wednesday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927009\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of treating melting roads and the sentencing of the son and daughter of Charlie Chawke make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-550765","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\/550765","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=550765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}