Monday's front pages are dominated by Budget 2025 and Israeli air strikes on Lebanon and Yemen.
A €2 billion 'budget bonanza' will aim to help households, The Irish Times reports. Israel's attacks on Lebanon also make the front page.
The Irish Examiner and Irish Independent lead with the budget, focusing on the €2 billion cost-of-living package and double child benefit payments.
The Echo leads with a story on rising house prices.
Budget 2025 also makes the front page of the Irish Daily Mail.
Just a day to go to Budget 2025, and this is how it's looking... pic.twitter.com/nMh9RoL81j
Advertisement— The Irish Daily Mail (@irishdailymail) September 30, 2024
The Irish Sun leads with gang violence and open drug dealing in Dublin.
Today's Irish Sun front page. pic.twitter.com/EC128HR4PP
Advertisement— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) September 30, 2024
The Herald leads with a bomb threat at the home of Minister for Justice Helen McEntee.
In the North, the Belfast Telegraph leads with abuse survivor Máiría Cahill criticising Sinn Féin after it emerged a suspected sex offender received references from party officials.
The same story makes the front page of The Irish News.
Today's #frontpage
Police visit children's homes 5,092 times in a single year pic.twitter.com/APajStFJ8Y— The Irish News (@irish_news) September 30, 2024
Monday’s UK front pages are divided to start the week, with several titles leading on Israel’s latest attacks on neighbouring nations. However, a number of papers kept focus a little closer to home, with a slew of splashes on British politics and policy.
Israel has launched a fresh wave of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and other Iranian-backed proxies across the Middle East, as per The Guardian, the i, the Financial Times. and The Times ‘ front pages.
THE GUARDIAN: Violence escalates as Israel targets Yemen in airstrikes #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/43gxNGQMjD
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
I PAPER: Israel targets Iranian weapons network in Yemen after ‘wiping out’ Hezbollah leaders #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/QhZCuorRt9
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
FT: Israel steps up attacks on Iran proxies #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/GA5iXYPDnp
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
Introducing #TomorrowsPapersToday from: #TheTimes
Israel tanks at border
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Looking to British politics, the Daily Mail leads on Boris Johnson’s impending memoir, in which the former UK prime minister accuses French president Emmanuel Macron of “weaponising” Channel crossings as a “punishment” for the UK in the wake of Brexit.
MAIL: Boris: Macron wanted ‘punishment beating’ for Britain over Brexit #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/FRxGm8OjDo
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
The Independent splashes on UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is fighting back against claims his government is tainted by “sleaze, nepotism and avarice” in the wake of the recent donor and gifts scandal.
INDEPENDENT: Starmer fights ‘sleaze’ claims #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/9qDkP1hh8t
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
New data indicates that cutting winter fuel payments for the majority of UK pensioners could cost the NHS £169 million a year, the Daily Express reports.
EXPRESS: Cruel winter fuel cuts ‘will cost NHS £169m a year’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/YbeME3ryWi
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
The Daily Telegraph splashes with the latest comments by Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, who has said maternity pay has “gone too far” and parents need to take more “personal responsibility” when raising a newborn.
TELEGRAPH: Badenoch sparks Tory splits over maternity pay costs #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/NGh4wV8JtC
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
The Metro splashes with a report on drunk driving in the UK, with 25,000 motorists twice banned for getting behind the wheel after a few beverages, prompting the paper to call for in-car breathalysers.
METRO: Fight serial drink-drive epidemic #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/MMRmNBaGFu
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
The Sun leads with a headline on Annie Kilner, wife of Manchester City player Kyle Walker, who has demanded for half of the footballer’s net worth to “save their marriage” after he fathered two children with influencer Lauryn Goodman.
Introducing #TomorrowsPapersToday from: #TheSun
Give me £15 million to stay
Check out https://t.co/9teDRGOPXn or more newspapers. #buyanewspaper #buyapaper #pressfreedom #journalist pic.twitter.com/vxI2u3IDxh— #TomorrowsPapersToday @ The TSC News Channel (@channel_tsc) September 29, 2024
Lastly, the Daily Star reports on a surge of deadly mushrooms cropping up across the UK in the wake of recent heavy rains.
STAR: Invasion of the killer fungi! #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/OgTdFMf4n0
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) September 29, 2024
The New York Times leads with Israel's strikes on Lebanon.
