What the papers say: Monday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Monday.

The Irish Times leads with Tusla hiring security guards for special care workers and residents due to critically low staffing levels at one secure care unit for children in the past fortnight.

Disbaled people in congregated and institutional settings are still not being protected from the threat of violence, neglect, coercion, and financial abuse, ministers have been told.

In a letter to several ministers, Oireachtas disability matters committee chairman Maurice Quinlivan said there is an urgent need to take action given the evidence that has been submitted to the committee, the Irish Examiner reports.

The Echo leads with a councillor declaring that an increase in the fines for dog fouling will make no difference in Cork city because no fines have been issued since 2022.

Taoiseach Micheál Mar­tin has warned his rivals against try­ing to cre­ate fresh lead­er­ship con­tro­versy after Fri­day’s by-elec­tions, according to the Irish Independent.

The vot­ing in Gal­way and Dub­lin will have implic­a­tions for all three of the main party lead­ers, with most in Fianna Fáil see­ing them as “lost causes”.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with four people being killed and several injured in a weekend of carnage on Irish roads.

Tributes were paid on Sunday to a young man who died after being put in a sus­pec­ted head­lock dur­ing a row.

David O’Mahony (38) died after an incid­ent at a house in Artane, Dub­lin, on Sat­urday morn­ing, the Irish Daily Star reports.

A major spat is devel­op­ing between the Higher Edu­ca­tion Minister and the Pub­lic Expendit­ure Min­is­ter over the plan to levy other depart­ments to pay for an expec­ted €600mil­lion over­spend in education, according to the Irish Daily Mail.

A young Irish man has been killed along­side his girl­friend in a road crash in Thai­l­and, The Herald reports.

He was named loc­ally as Max Hendrick­son, from Cabra, north Dub­lin.