What the papers say: Sunday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines on Easter Sunday.

The pub­lic are bra­cing for a global reces­sion in the wake of the war in Iran, with an over­whelm­ing major­ity of voters fear­ful of an eco­nomic down­turn within the next 12 months.

A Sunday Inde­pend­ent/Ire­land Thinks poll shows 82 per cent of voters fear a reces­sion in the com­ing year and 56 per cent believe it will be as bad as, or worse than, the 2008 fin­an­cial crash.

The man who sexu­ally assaul­ted and murdered Sis­ter Philom­ena Lyons has been given his release date after 24 years in jail, according to the Irish Sunday Mirror.

Kealon Her­ron, 45, was just 19 when he car­ried out the sick­en­ing attack on the beloved 68-year-old nun in the grounds of the Sac­red Heart Con­vent, Bally­bay, Co Mon­aghan, on Decem­ber 15th, 2001.

The Sunday World leads with criminals effect­ively imposing a ‘gang­land injunc­tion’ on author­it­ies pre­vent­ing the refur­bish­ment of the former home of key Kina­han lieu­ten­ant Sean McGov­ern.

Dub­lin City Coun­cil (DCC) con­firmed this week it is liable for levies, poten­tially amount­ing to tens of thou­sands of euro, due to the con­tin­ued derel­ic­tion of the Kina­han gang­ster’s former home at 219 Kil­dare Road, Crum­lin.

The Gov­ern­ment is accel­er­at­ing plans to intro­duce legis­la­tion which will allow the con­struc­tion of seven super-size asylum accom­mod­a­tion centres which will be immune to pub­lic plan­ning objec­tions, the Irish Mail on Sunday reports.

The Business Post warns that there is more pain in store as fuel prices are set to hit €2.30 within days.