{"id":585974,"date":"2026-08-07T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:28:17","slug":"what-the-papers-say-fridays-front-pages-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585974\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Friday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Times leads on additional Government revenues from the introduction of a new minimum corporation tax rate of 15 per cent. It also reports that a Belfast homeless charity claims rough sleepers were &#8216;moved&#8217; from Belfast city centre and threatened with arrest during this week&#8217;s Fleadh Cheol festival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"872\" width=\"586\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1937266\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent leads with the growth in consumer borrowing in the year to last March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"717\" width=\"543\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105692_853_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937262\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail reports on efforts to put a more positive spin on the expansion of data centres in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"716\" width=\"568\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105693_706_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937257\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner reports on stark figures on hospital waiting lists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"830\" width=\"542\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105694_421_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937265\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"722\" width=\"546\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105694_784_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937259\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"733\" width=\"570\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105695_170_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937260\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"717\" width=\"568\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105695_883_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937261\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"748\" width=\"583\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105696_316_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937264\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"737\" width=\"601\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105696_618_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937258\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"756\" width=\"386\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786105697_74_what-the-papers-say-friday-s-front-pages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1937263\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Times leads on additional Government revenues from the introduction of a new minimum corporation tax rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-585974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585974","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=585974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}