What the papers say: Wednesday's front pages
Ellen O'Donoghue
The ongoing crisis in Gaza and the death of Ozzy Osbourne feature on numerous Irish front pages on Wednesday morning.
The Irish Times lead with the Government's budget plans being under threat from US tariffs, and staff at an international news agency warning that its reporters in Gaza are facing imminent death from starvation and exhaustion.
The Irish Examiner lead with workers being set to miss out on tax cuts in the budget, industrial sprat fishing to be banned, and Israel facing intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The Echo lead with a drop of over 100 gardaí in Co Cork since 2020, and TDs saying there are not enough Cork plans in the National Development Plan.
The Irish Independent lead with workers being set to lose out in Budget 2026 if plans for a 9 per cent VAT rate for hospitality go ahead.
The Irish Daily Mirror lead with medics saying 21 children in Gaza died of hunger in 72 hours.
The Irish Daily Mail lead with consumer watchdog inspectors carrying out a string of unannounced raids on petrol stations and shops over mispricing.
The Belfast Telegraph lead with loyalists no longer being recruited by the South East Antrim UDA.
The Herald lead with two gardaí being acquitted of falsely imprisoning and assaulting a teenage father-to-be who was stopped for a drugs search outside a Dublin maternity hospital.
The Irish Daily Star lead with the death of Ozzy Osbourne.
