{"id":599002,"date":"2026-08-20T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599002\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:06:13","slug":"what-the-papers-say-thursdays-front-pages-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599002\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Thursday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safety concerns raised about Cork University Hospital and a fundraiser for those injured in the M9 crash make the front pages of Thursday&#8217;s papers.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/08\/20\/irish-doctor-jailed-in-uk-for-sexually-assaulting-patients-worked-in-dublin-care-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Irish Times<\/a> reveals that an\u00a0Irish doctor who was jailed in the UK last week for sexually assaulting two patients worked in a centre for people with intellectual disabilities in north Dublin for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>The paper also reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/20\/simon-harriss-aide-mocked-teachers-as-work-shy-and-public-as-racist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">constituency director<\/a> for T\u00e1naiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has deleted his X account after he was asked about a series of provocative social media posts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"853\" width=\"568\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216770_328_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1941940\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner and The Echo lead with Cork University Hospital deemed unsafe for patients by the hospital&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"847\" width=\"557\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216770_156_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941941\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"844\" width=\"668\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216771_676_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941942\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent leads with a warning that thousands of people in their 60s risk losing their home as they will not be able to meet mortgage payments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"699\" width=\"535\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216771_284_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941943\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail leads with businessman Sean Quinn claiming the State is part of a &#8220;major cover-up&#8221; regarding how his assets were handled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"690\" width=\"532\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216772_655_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941944\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror leads with donations for the sisters injured in the fatal M9 crash, which killed five teenagers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"697\" width=\"529\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216772_959_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941945\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Star leads with the case of a Garda who appeared in court charged with soliciting a person to murder a mother and three children.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"678\" width=\"532\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787216773_625_what-the-papers-say-thursday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941946\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safety concerns raised about Cork University Hospital and a fundraiser for those injured in the M9 crash make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-599002","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\/599002","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=599002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}