The front pages focus on housing targets and the closing stages of the Regency murder trial.
The Irish Times reports that Ireland may need up to 62,000 homes built per year until 2050 to meet demand, according to unpublished research by the Housing Commission.
Politicians identified as high-risk targets for attack could be given up to €5,000 to spend on beefing up their personal security, the Irish Examiner reports.
The Irish Independent says that thousands of planned apartments outside Dublin will probably never be built because they’re not financially viable.
The child and family agency, Tusla, is set to get new powers to temporarily shut down "rogue" creches, the Irish Daily Mail reveals.
The Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star put the Regency murder trial on their front pages as the closing arguments are heard in the Special Criminal Court.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that civil servants in the North have published a 69-page report into how a vet was hounded out of her job for whistleblowing, though the report "avoids naming the senior officials who forced her out."
Developments in eastern Europe and the latest on Nadhim Zahawi lead the British papers.
The US and Germany have joined western allies including the UK in agreeing to send battle tanks to Ukraine, says the Daily Mail, i and Daily Mirror.
Mail: Finally, the West unites to defend freedom #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/LcKggp3Kl3
— George Mann 🫧⚒️🫧 (@sgfmann) January 25, 2023
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Thursday's front page: Allies send tanks to hold back Putin - as Ukraine war escalates#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/uEH7U7jH4w
— i newspaper (@theipaper) January 25, 2023
Thursday's front page - 'WORLD UNITED AGAINST EVIL'https://t.co/sAlWN8tsEZ pic.twitter.com/kjnLG8hmtT
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 25, 2023
The Financial Times has Lockheed Martin ready to meet demand for its F-16 aircraft as some of Ukraine’s closest European allies revive efforts to provide Kyiv with fighter jets.
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Thursday 26 January https://t.co/22Ei3Xufi6 pic.twitter.com/qIuA60Uz25
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 25, 2023
The public should prepare for the shock of seeing “two or three” officers from London's Metropolitan Police in the dock each week for serious crimes, Metro quotes the force’s commissioner Mark Rowley as saying.
Tomorrow's paper today 📰
TWO TO THREE COPS IN COURT A WEEK
Met's wave of 'violence against women' cases#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/YtRgAFGob3— Metro (@MetroUK) January 25, 2023
UK trade minister Andrew Bowie has said Rishi Sunak will sack Tory chair Mr Zahawi if he is found to have “fallen foul” of the ministerial code, reports The Independent.
Independent digital front page: Zahawi Tax Storm - the noose tightens #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/V5P2mQnxjC
— George Mann 🫧⚒️🫧 (@sgfmann) January 25, 2023
UK deputy prime minister Dominic Raab faces at least 24 formal bullying complaints, according to The Guardian, which is significantly more than the eight complaints already declared.
Guardian front page, Thursday 26 January 2023: Raab faces at least two dozen complaints in bullying inquiry pic.twitter.com/T0EpwIVIWB
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 25, 2023
Marks & Spencer’s chairman has become the latest business leader to criticise the British government’s economic policy, with Archie Norman quoted in The Daily Telegraph as calling plans to ease post-Brexit trade “overbearing” and “baffling”.
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Baffling Brexit plan undermines the UK, says M&S chief'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletterhttps://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/SRCCBRR5d5— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 25, 2023
The Times has been told UK ministers are preparing to ban the sale and possession of what is known as laughing gas as part of a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.
Times: Laughing gas ban to tackle bad behaviour #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/z4aULPX1ik
— George Mann 🫧⚒️🫧 (@sgfmann) January 25, 2023
“How can this be the sad reality of our country?” asks the Daily Express, which focuses on the death from hypothermia of an 87-year-old widowed great-grandmother too worried about surging energy prices to turn on the heating in her Greater Manchester home.
Thursday's front cover: How can this be the sad reality of our country? #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/xAXnyJR3rh pic.twitter.com/cfepXzsOgk
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) January 25, 2023
The Sun reports Prince Andrew has been “booted out of his plush Buckingham Palace apartment”, with the paper adding that the royal “likes to share his bed with five cuddly bears”.
On tomorrow's front page:
Prince Andrew booted out of Buckingham Palace apartmenthttps://t.co/NIgnKSknLK pic.twitter.com/LOrcaefRbR— The Sun (@TheSun) January 25, 2023
And the Daily Star covers a theoretical nuclear-powered rocket which could reach Mars in just 45 days.
Thursday's front page: Thrusters to warp drive #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/twfbRnw9fj pic.twitter.com/J6ChTnn6Wl
— Daily Star (@dailystar) January 25, 2023
