Friday's front pages focus on stories such as new data from the CSO which shows Ireland's population has reached over 5 million and banks being fined for the tracker mortgage scandal.
The Irish Times lead with the news around Ireland's population reaching over 5 million for the first time since 1841.
The Irish Examiner and Irish Independent both focus on the tracker mortgage scandal which saw both AIB and ESB being fined by the Central Bank.
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Here is the front page of today's Irish Independent pic.twitter.com/q6d8YUTYWpAdvertisement— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) June 24, 2022
The Echo lead with a piece about man on trial in Cork for attempting to meet a 14-year-old girl which was actually a ruse set up by a vigilante paedophile hunting group.
The Irish Daily Mail lead with a piece about their being a total of 166,000 homes that are vacant with only 800 available to rent nationwide.
Friday's front page. Pick up a copy to read how 'Jerry Hall was stuck in Succession when she wanted to be in Ab Fab', or subscribe to the digital edition at https://t.co/wKUyK4RKrD pic.twitter.com/XFsK8OeHrw
— The Irish Daily Mail (@irishdailymail) June 24, 2022
The Irish Sun lead with a piece about two men jumping into the River Liffey after being chased by Gardaí for smuggling cocaine.
Today's Irish Sun.#BuyAPaper pic.twitter.com/QlXsNKFR3T
— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) June 24, 2022
The Belfast Telegraph lead with a piece about Queen's University pausing an honorary degree for former Phoenix Natural Gas chief executive Peter Dixon.
Morning readers! Stay with @BelTel for all your breaking news. Here's a look at the front page of today's Belfast Telegraph. | https://t.co/bbRGxQjfhA pic.twitter.com/rKmSNZ3o61
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) June 24, 2022
In the UK, The stories leading the papers at the end of the working week include industrial action expanding to airports and the UK Prime Minister and Prince of Wales butting heads over the UK Government’s controversial Rwanda policy.
Metro, The Guardian, i, Daily Mirror and Financial Times all write of the “massive disruption” expected to hit the UK this summer after British Airways workers overwhelmingly voted in favour of strike action on the same day that railways were all but shut down.
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🔴 Summer hols threat as BA strikes add to airport mayhem#tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/Oh6eMvcx6F— Metro (@MetroUK) June 23, 2022
Guardian front page, Friday 24 June 2022: Airport staff vote to strike as threat of disruption widens pic.twitter.com/XQBGvUcDtY
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 23, 2022
Friday's front page: BA summer holiday strike set to cause turmoil at Heathrow#tomorrowspapertoday pic.twitter.com/WmwvgxoC9s
— i newspaper (@theipaper) June 23, 2022
Tomorrow's front page: Air rage #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/SppCmQDKrS pic.twitter.com/DG9HksNXhX
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) June 23, 2022
Just published: Front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, for Friday 24 June 2022 pic.twitter.com/Uytl8V6jc2
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 23, 2022
The Independent adds that ground staff at the airline’s Heathrow hub “overwhelmingly backed a walkout in their fight to reverse pay cuts imposed during the Covid pandemic” with up to 1,000 workers involved.
Friday’s INDEPENDENT Digital: “Mass disruption feared in summer airport strike” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/PIYxl34YNR
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 23, 2022
Elsewhere, Daily Mail and The Times report Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales will face each other in Rwanda today amid mounting tension over the Government’s controversial asylum seeker policy, which Charles reportedly called “appalling”.
Friday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/qDHFI7kEq0
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) June 23, 2022
Friday’s TIMES: “Charles should keep open mind on Rwanda, says PM” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/2j9wvziDL9
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 23, 2022
The Daily Express says a judge at the European Court of Human Rights has spoken of his surprise at the lack of transparency after it “repeatedly refused to say who ruled last week’s maiden flight to Kigali from MoD Boscombe Down could not take off at the last minute”.
Friday’s Daily EXPRESS: “Judge Slams His Own Court Over Secret Rwanda Ruling” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/vQnwfiWiTl
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) June 23, 2022
The Daily Telegraph writes that Mr Johnson has called for a reduction in the use of biofuel, despite it being a key plank of his Government’s net zero ambitions.
📰The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Drive for green fuel to be relaxed'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletterhttps://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/9iptBv6Nsb— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 23, 2022
The Queen is riding horses again in a “remarkable comeback that will cheer the nation”, according to The Sun.
On tomorrow's front page: The Queen is riding again in a remarkable comeback that will cheer the nation https://t.co/PmNJMvzz3A pic.twitter.com/oH8ibQml1t
— The Sun (@TheSun) June 23, 2022
And the Daily Star features Amazon’s “creepy” new Alexa feature which will supposedly “mimic the voices of dead relatives”.
Excuse me 😳 #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/PnxTtJZ6hA pic.twitter.com/nTrbdUZGrp
— Daily Star (@dailystar) June 23, 2022
