What the papers say: Tuesday's front pages

Eva Osborne

A range of stories feature on the front pages of Irish newspapers on Tuesday.

The Irish Times reports that a new domestic violence disclosure scheme could expose women and girls to an “unacceptable” risk of further abuse, according to an internal Department of Justice analysis.

The paper also covers how almost 20 per cent of families have cut back on, or gone without, heating in the past six months.

The mass excavation underway at the site of the Tuam mother and baby home is the main story on the front page of the Irish Examiner on Tuesday.

A Cork-based director of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) has said that between 60 and 80 Cork and Kerry GPs are due to retire within five years - up to four times the figure provided to the The Echo by the HSE.

Ireland's crackdown on scam texts is labelling real texts as fraudulent - leading to confusion over hospital appointment alerts, verification codes, and sports tickets, the Irish Independent reports.

The Irish Daily Star leads with a popular footballer being stabbed to death on Monday due to his links to feuding gangsters.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with the same, and also covers the funeral of the Donegal mother and daughter who died following a crash last week.

The Government has insisted conflict over the Middle East, and not the All-Ireland hurling semi-final, resulted in the Taoiseach chaning his flight from Japan at a week's notice, the Irish Daily Mail reports.

The Herald reports that yesterday's murder victim was an innocent man who was stabbed to death as part of a spiralling Dublin dispute, and that he himself had no involvement in the feud violence.