What the papers say: Tuesday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Tuesday.

The board of the Rotunda Hospital has climbed down from its position that public-only consultants be allowed do private work after Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill threatened to withdraw funding from the maternity hospital, The Irish Times reports.

After a short meeting on Monday evening, the board of governors of the Rotunda disclosed that it has “unanimously decided to bring the hospital’s arrangements into line with the Government’s policy on the terms of the public-only consultant contract”.

Thousands of carers are cutting back on food and heat to make ends meet while at the same time paying out privately for crucial equipment such as wheelchairs for their loved ones which should be funded by the public system, according to the Irish Examiner.

The Echo leads with Cork City Council saying the uptake of grants for improving shop-fronts on Patrick Street is disappointing.

Senior Kina­han fig­ure Sean McGov­ern was linked to at least five murder plots in the Hutch feud, includ­ing an attempt on Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, according to the Irish Independent.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with the son of murdered Noel Kirwan saying the jailing of Sean McGovern for 24 years on Monday "marks the end of a painful journey".

The Irish Daily Star also leads with Sean McGovern's sentencing, reporting that the smirking mobster had the grin wiped off his face on Tuesday.

The Rotunda was left with ‘no option’ but to cave to the Health Min­is­ter’s demands that pub­lic-only con­sult­ants stop treat­ing private patients after fund­ing was threatened, the Irish Daily Mail reports.

The son of a man murdered dur­ing the Hutch-Kina­han feud has said the “com­plete dis­reg­ard for human life and the dev­ast­a­tion left behind is something we will carry with us forever”, The Herald reports.