What the papers say: Monday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Monday.

Comments on violence in the Middle East by President Catherine Connolly are expected to increase pressure on the Government in advance of the St Patrick’s Day visit by Taoiseach Micheál Martin to the Oval Office in Washington, according to The Irish Times.

The Irish Examiner leads with the Government ruling out introducing cost-of-living supports and energy credits amid growing uncertainty about the economic impacts of the ongoing war in the Middle East.

The delivery of new-build social homes in Cork fell by 14 per cent last year, with fewer than 900 homes completed across the city and county, The Echo reports.

The Irish Independent reports that the Government is to face down demands for cuts to motorway tolls to ease the impact of surging fuel prices, even as hauliers threaten major blockades of roads and airports in protest.

The Irish Daily Mirror also leads with hauliers threatening protest action.

Hauliers have said they will have "no choice" but to block key routes if the Government does not intervene as fuel prices soar.

Transgender offender Barbie Kardashian has told of her move to a council house, and her fears of being sent back to prison, the Irish Daily Star reports.

The Irish Daily Mail leads with ministers being concerned Donald Trump could cancel Taoiseach Micheál Martin's White House visit over controversial comments by Catherine Connolly.

The Irish President said the ongoing missile attacks in the Middle East are "deliberate assaults on international law".

A one-time friend of gangland criminal Christy Kinahan is getting older and is no longer involved in that life, a court was told this week.

Noel Boylan (51) was found with over €4,000 worth of drugs after gardaí raided his house in west Dublin, The Herald reports.