The Newspaper panel
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What are today's newspaper headlines and who is on the panel?
Good morning, you're all very welcome. Derval MacDonald with you this bank holiday weekend. Our newspaper panel have been busy picking the best and the rest from this morning's papers, but before I introduce them to you, let's have a quick look at today's headlines. Kenehan faces deportation for UAE visa expiry. That's the lead story for the Sunday Times. John Mooney reports that Christy Kenehan Sr., whose eldest son Daniel Kenehan is set to be extradited to Ireland from Dubai, is himself facing potential deportation from Dubai. as his UA re-residency visa expired last April. Daniel Kinahan is awaiting extradition to Ireland to stand trial in Dublin for directing an organised crime gang. US President Donald Trump may perform the prize-giving at the Irish Open, which will be held at his Doonbeg Golf Resort on County Clare in September.
That's according to the Irish Mail on Sunday's lead story, which says that the visit, already being described as a logistical nightmare, as Garda resources are strained by Ireland's presidency of the European Council, could be aggravated by the extradition of Daniel Kinahan. Sources told the paper that the government hopes the two men don't arrive at the same time, although the Sunday World and others are speculating that Daniel Kinahan could be back within days or weeks, avoiding any clash. The Sunday World leads with a Kinahan organised crime gang adjacent story. Mall of Duty is the headline above a photo of Anita Freeman, partner of Sean McGovern, a senior lieutenant in the group who is currently serving a 24-year jail term at Portleaf Prison after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to two charges of directing the activities of a criminal organisation relating to the Hutch-Kinahan gangland feud.
Ms Freeman, whom the paper notes has no involvement in crime, visited Mr McGovern in prison earlier this week. It's over. Chambers calls time and endless state recruitment is the main headline for the Business Post. The paper carries an interview with Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers following the publication last week of the Mid-Year Expenditure Report. Minister Chambers says that there is a need for greater efficiency in how we deploy public sector staffing as the annual public sector pay bill reaches £31.7 billion. That's up from £18.8 billion in 2019. It is workers, specifically middle-income earners, who form the basis of the lead for the Sunday Independent. Its latest Ireland Thinks poll says that three-quarters of the public believe that middle-income earners are paying too much tax as pressure mounts on Finance Minister Simon Harris to deliver for the taxpayer in October's budget.
We Thought We Were Going to Die is the main story for the Irish Sunday Mirror, which features an interview with an Irish mum who was caught up in the aftermath of a 4.7 magnitude earthquake in Naples in Italy, which sent residents and tourists fleeing into the streets. The tremor was one of the most powerful in the region for some 40 years. The Hour Sun on Sunday leads with a story relating to the late singer-songwriter Glenn Hansard, whose death and legacy is covered extensively in today's papers. The Sun says that RT is planning to honour Glenn Hansard with an all-star Late Late Show tribute dedicated to the singer. For a once night only is the headline there. Across the IRC, the Observer leads with what Rob Draper describes as FIFA president Gianno Infantino's terminal miscalculation after trying to sell stakes in the World Cup.
Own goal is the headline for the Observer, which also describes Infantino as Trump's Icarus. And you can imagine there's lots of coverage of that botched plan all across the newspapers today. Well, joining me in studio today are Gerry O'Sullivan, presenter of Kerry Radio, or Kerry Today on Radio Kerry, Janet Horner, councillor for Dublin's North Inner City, Archie Maloney, political reporter with the Sunday Independent, who I called out last week for writing most of the Sunday Independent. And finally, Peter Brown, managing director of Bagot Investments.
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