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Donald McNamee reporting that shareholders have been advised to reject the deal, which was announced last Tuesday.

Healy Ray, given an ultimatum by Taoiseach Ed, that's a splash for the Irish Mail on Sunday, which reports that Taoiseach Micheál Martin gave an ultimatum to Michael Healy Ray that a private two-for-one deal that he and his brother Danny agreed in support of the government would have to be upheld before the Kerry TD quit the coalition.

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cops helped Neil Kinahan, that's the lead for the Sunday World, which has an eight-page spread dubbed a gangland special on the arrest in Dubai of Daniel Kinahan.

In one of those many reports, Ryder Ken Foy says that there are no imminent plans by Gardaí, well not yet, to press charges against his father, Christy Kinahan Sr., and younger brother, Christy Kinahan Jr.,

Daniel's Dubai hellhole lets the lead splash for the Irish Sun on Sunday.

The Sun reports that Kinahan has swapped his luxury lifestyle for what it has described as a hellhole prison in Dubai where inmates are shaved and starved.

That's according to a former Irish inmate of the prison who spoke to the Irish Sun.

Dubai Jeopardy is the lead story in the Irish Sunday Mirror, which says that Kinahan had ruled out plans to flee Dubai for Russia or Iran because he believed he would be arrested if he ever tried to leave.

Across the Irish Sea, we mentioned it yesterday, the Sunday Telegraph leads with more pain ahead for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who insists that Downing Street was unaware that Peter Mandelson, the man he had appointed as UK ambassador to the US, had failed security vetting.

Meanwhile, the Observer carries details of a really disturbing investigation, which is drawing on new research, which has found that the design of AI chatbots appears to be linked to a growing wave of psychiatric emergencies and deaths, with some of those chatbots more likely than others to tip vulnerable users over the edge.

And I suspect we'll be hearing more.

More about all of that in due course.

But those are your headlines with me today in studio are McClifford, special correspondent with the Irish Examiner, Aisling Meehan, farmer, solicitor and tax consultant, Derek Mooney, public affairs consultant and former advisor to Fianna Fáil and Ciara Murphy, senior policy officer at the ESRI and Sunday Independent columnist.

You're all very, very welcome.

I might start with you, Mac Clifford.

Former Taoiseach Leo Vratker has an ability to provoke a conversation, but he was on a live episode of Paths to Power with Matt Cooper and he said...

People in rural Ireland are very quick to tell people in urban Ireland that we're the real workers.

We're the ones paying the bills.

We're the ones feeding the country.