What the papers say: Wednesday's front pages
Ellen O'Donoghue
Weather stories are scattered across Irish front pages on Wednesday once again.
The Irish Times lead with heavy rain bringing a risk of further flooding, Irish courts being the slowest in the EU at deciding cases, and new rules where parents will have to be told by schools about the amount of money generated from financial contributions they are asked to make and how it is being spent.
The Irish Examiner lead with X rejecting an invitation to appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee, electric car sales beating petrol and diesel, schools struggling to fill teaching posts in core subjects, and the risk of flooding remaining very high.
The Irish Independent lead with court cases in Ireland taking three times as long as the rest of Europe.
The Echo lead with the housing crisis causing problems for Cork addiction treatment centres as they try to find accommodation for recovering patients.
The Herald lead with a man who thought he was going to be murdered when five Dublin criminals attacked him by branding him 'Rat' with a hot iron, waterboarded him, and ran over him with an electric bike.
The Irish Daily Mail lead with Michael Flatley winning an injunction blocking a firm from cancelling the Lord of the Dance tour, which is set to begin in Dublin this week.
The Irish Daily Mirror lead with recent floods as Met Éireann predict more rainfall.
The Irish Daily Star lead with the Regency hotel attack 10 years on.
The Belfast Telegraph lead with George Mitchell's legacy in Northern Ireland being destroyed by links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
