The front pages on Wednesday cover income tax bands, GP opening hours, and a top cop charged with drink-driving.
The Irish Times reports that primary school pupils will spend less time learning religion under the biggest changes to the curriculum in more than 20 years.
Leo Varadkar has said he is “determined” to make policy changes to ensure people can earn up to €50,000 a year without having to pay the highest rate of income tax, according to the Irish Examiner.
The Irish Independent says schools run by the Spiritan congregation, which is at the centre of a sexual abuse scandal, have received €31 million in State funding in the past two decades.
The Irish Daily Mail reports that GPs are being urged to extend their hours and open on Saturdays due to a surge in demand.
Assistant Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly tells the Irish Daily Mirror that the leaders of the Kinahan cartel will be put behind bars.
The Irish Daily Star reports that a Garda allegedly paid a criminal to attack another officer's home.
A top PSNI officer has been charged with drink-driving after a crash on Christmas Eve, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
Cost-of-living difficulties and terrorising pigs lead the British front pages.
UK unions have a new tactic to increase the number of major walkouts across the transport network, reports the i.
Wednesday's front page: Train strikes set to escalate as union plans daily walkouts#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/822qthb6gF
— i newspaper (@theipaper) December 27, 2022
Next to join the industrial action ranks could be junior doctors, who are to be balloted on striking from January 9th, with the Daily Mirror citing a survey showing two-thirds of them are looking to leave the UK health service.
Wednesday's Front Page: JUNIOR DOCS STRIKE FEAR
Two-thirds look at quitting their job... as ballot over action looms ➡️https://t.co/kqO9gh7JeH#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/Z8B1sXWPXc— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) December 27, 2022
Winter and the cost-of-living crisis have forced thousands of vulnerable cancer patients into isolation, a charity tells the Daily Express.
Wednesday's front page: Cost of living crisis hits patients hardhttps://t.co/471WWMjg37#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/I6x9U9FkDo
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) December 27, 2022
Food bank managers warn the British government in The Independent that a “tsunami of need” could see hungry families turned away in the new year, with donations falling as demand steadily rises.
Our front page tomorrow @Independent #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/2x5yl66BQY
— Alastair Jamieson (@alastairjam) December 27, 2022
The Times claims an argument between Cabinet colleagues Suella Braverman and Michael Gove has pushed back long-anticipated counter-terrorism reforms.
Wednesday’s TIMES: “Cabinet row over Prevent anti-terror programme” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/AmKsnp4h2y
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) December 27, 2022
Top brass must take action over an “epidemic” of predatory behaviour and sexual assault at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, The Daily Telegraph cites a charity as saying.
📰 The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Sandhurst urged to tackle toxic culture'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletter 👇https://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/TQXPF7P50U— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 27, 2022
The Financial Times reports China will remove quarantine requirements for inbound travellers from January 8th.
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Wednesday 28 December https://t.co/HN51FZ1HJK pic.twitter.com/oaZ5i2xYmM
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) December 27, 2022
Union leaders are accused in the Daily Mail of plotting a “de facto general strike” after they launched a loyalty-card scheme designed to swell picket lines.
Wednesday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/kFUByHBpds
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) December 27, 2022
And the Daily Star says runaway pigs have been terrorising a village, leading them to be called the “porky blinders”.
A series of un-porcine-ite events🐖#TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/VY3usw7wFB pic.twitter.com/yRP6vdQ4qE
— Daily Star (@dailystar) December 27, 2022
