What the papers say: Monday's front pages

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What The Papers Say: Monday's Front Pages
The re-election of Emmanuel Macron as French president dominates many of Monday's front pages.
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Monday's front pages feature the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, and reports of sex workers being abused and harrassed.

The Irish Times leads with the comfortable re-election of Emmanuel Macron to a second term as French president.

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The Irish Examiner says that hundreds of reports have been made of men claiming to be gardaí attacking sex workers.

Women with a cancer causing gene mutation are being told to expect a four-year wait for potentially life-saving surgery, according to the Irish Daily Mail.

Elsewhere, the Irish Daily Star reports that GSOC is probing the circumstances of a man's death after he drowned following an interaction with Gardaí.

Daniel Kinahan's route for trafficking drugs has been exposed, according to the Irish Daily Mirror.

And the Belfast Telegraph features an exclusive interview with Tamara Bronckaers, whose treatment as a whistle-blower has led to the biggest employment tribunal settlement in Northern Irish history.

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Meanwhile, in Britain, the front pages are dominated by the news that French president Emmanuel Macron has been re-elected for a second term.

The Independent, The Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian all lead with the 44-year-old centrist’s win over his nationalist far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen.

In his victory speech, Mr Macron acknowledged that many backed him “not out of support for my ideas” but in order to block Ms Le Pen, The Daily Telegraph adds.

Elsewhere, Metro‘s front features president Vladimir Putin’s “tiniest victim” – a three-month-old baby killed in a Russian airstrike alongside her mother and grandmother in Odessa, Ukraine.

Conservative rebels have joined forces to oust the British prime minister as the party faces a “hammering” in local elections, the i reports.

The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express focus on the cost-of-living crisis in the UK with the latter saying pensioners are facing a “year from hell” as inflation is set to hit 10 per cent. The former adds that 5.3 million Brits will be forced to choose between heating or eating.

While the Daily Mail reports that hormone replacement medication shortages could lead to menopausal women taking their own lives, according to campaigners.

And the Daily Star runs with findings from a survey of 2,000 Britons which had 30 per cent of men saying they are regularly kept awake by snoring female partners.

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