What the papers say: Monday's front pages
Ottoline Spearman
A variety of stories lead the news on Monday morning.
Refugees will have to wait three years to be reunited with their families under a new International Protection Bill, reports the Irish Times. The proposed changes would also apply to immediate family members. The Government may stop short of requiring e-scooters to be registered or for users to be licensed in a new crackdown on e-scooters, with junior transport minister Séan Canney saying that safety can be improved without going through a lengthy process of drafting legislation. And a conservation charity has said that the Government is “seeking to dramatically erode the public right of access to justice via the courts” in proposing to introduce caps on legal costs for judicial review challenges.
Economists have warned that Ireland's reliance on corporate tax receipts from US multinationals remains one of the biggest threats to Ireland's financal stability, reports the Irish Examiner.
The Echo leads with the childcare crisis in Cork, as 134 facilities have closed in only five years.
Gardaí are tapping into an insurance database, which has seen over 16,000 uninsured vehicles seized in the first 10 months of last year, with more than 1,600 drivers being caught for driving without insurance each month. That's the Irish Independent's splash this morning, which reports that more than 4.2 million driver numbers have been added to the Imid database as of November.
The Irish Daily Mirror covers the protests in Iran, and how the nation has threatened retaliatory attacks should the US interfere with the unrest that has seen over 500 people killed and more than 10,000 arrested.
The Irish Daily Star reports on an armed man, wearing a balaclava, who rushed into a pub in Ballyfermot, West Dublin on Saturday. Onlookers grabbed the gunman to prevent him from opening fire, with a bar stool reportedly thrown at the man.
Robina Aminian, a 23-year-old student, was shot in the back of the head in Iran as part of the regime's crackdown on dissent, reports The Irish Daily Mail.
The Belfast Telegraph looks at how an MLA, who was the victim of a deepfake porn video, has quit the X platform following revelations that its AI chatbot was being used to digitally undress people.
