What the papers say: Sunday's front pages
Hospital overcrowding is the main story on Sunday's front pages, with one report claiming Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly raised concerns about overcrowding with the HSE in the summer.
The health minister's warning is the main story in the Business Post.
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🗞️ Revolut fined in Lithuania for failing to submit accounts on time pic.twitter.com/MjTUSfZHOn— Business Post (@businessposthq) January 8, 2023
The Sunday Independent leads with an Ireland Thinks poll which reveals the public's lack of confidence in hospitals.
Fifty patients have died this week as hospital overcrowding "chaos" continues, the Irish Mail on Sunday reports.
In this week's paper:
- Week of A&E chaos 'kills 50 patients'
- Sheep targeted to 'blood' fighting dogs
- William: Harry was brainwashed by therapy
- Revealed: €3.5bn interest bill for Anglo bailout ... and rising pic.twitter.com/jJz6R6Ny7v— Irish Mail on Sunday (@IrishMailSunday) January 8, 2023
The Irish Sun on Sunday leads with a pledge from the mother of a murdered boxer to keep fighting for justice.
Today's Irish Sun on Sunday front page. pic.twitter.com/tZ0IIcsq6g
— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) January 8, 2023
The UK front pages for Sunday are again consumed by revelations from Prince Harry's autobiography and those given in his first of numerous television interviews, as well as the NHS crisis.
The Sun on Sunday features another excerpt from the book – recounting Harry’s claim of another alleged confrontation between the two princes.
Tomorrow's front page: William lunged at brother after Philip’s funeral, claims Harryhttps://t.co/jA8pbnszA0 pic.twitter.com/1n4XZg2RmH
— The Sun (@TheSun) January 7, 2023
The Sunday Express continues to follow the fall-out from Harry’s revelation he killed 25 Taliban fighters, citing security experts who say he has put his children at risk, while the Sunday Mirror says he has made the Invictus Games a target for extremists.
Sunday's front page: Harry 'puts children in danger' #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/C7VSugMjvr pic.twitter.com/WT8GMy52gy
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) January 7, 2023
Sunday's front page: Harry 'has made Invictus Games a target'.#TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/GBHOFajULg pic.twitter.com/iXByW90tNJ
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 7, 2023
The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday People adopt a more sympathetic tone to Harry after he told ITV’s Tom Bradby he only cried once over his mother’s death – when her coffin was lowered into the ground – due to him and his brother being preoccupied by consoling the devastated public.
📰 The front page of tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph:
'Harry's guilt: "I couldn't cry in public when my mother died"'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletter 👇https://t.co/UsfUCzx4yO pic.twitter.com/WIWg6tZcbG— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 7, 2023
Sunday's front page: Harry: I only cried once when my mum died.#TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/hXrfWjCfAB pic.twitter.com/ywGsmGxpmk
— The Sunday People (@thesundaypeople) January 7, 2023
Elsewhere, The Observer, the Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Sunday Times all report on the crisis gripping the NHS, with the latter writing that thousands of patients stuck in hospitals will be moved urgently into care homes under UK government plans to ease pressure on A&E wards.
Tomorrow’s front page pic.twitter.com/QyicvgHbkb
— The Observer (@ObserverUK) January 7, 2023
Sunday MAIL: “Waiting To Die On NHS” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/SE79mBaH6c
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) January 7, 2023
Sunday’s INDEPENDENT Digital: “Pay deal needed to cut waiting lists, warn nurses” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/sxqNN4eyrM
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) January 7, 2023
Sunday TIMES: “NHS to buy up care beds to clear wards” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/VUQvJNb1Jf
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) January 7, 2023
And the Daily Star Sunday says British homes are facing an invasion from “sex-mad super-mice”.
Sunday's front page: Invasion of the sex-mad squeakers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/bsbTTO5NNB pic.twitter.com/z8hBCIKo7V
— Daily Star (@dailystar) January 7, 2023
