Today's papers reviewed (courtesy of newstalk and twitter)

[Baron von Biffo]

The government is to negotiate with the pharmaceutical industry to reduce the price of drugs here.

Negotiations on drug prices are a bit like leaving cert points stories - They're an annual phenomenon but nothing ever changes.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...323741850.html

[DCon]

Croke park, FF want wealth stashed in jewellery to be exempt from bankruptcy, Denis not happy with Lucinda

THE IRISH TIMES

Croke Park successor may target pay and conditions

After this wonderful theatre, final is more of a coin-flip than ever

FF wants jewellery exemption in personal insolvency law

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

Drug death mystery of two young graduates

GAA club mourns death of garda lawyer from CJD

Alps shooting girl comes out of coma

THE IRISH EXAMINER

O’Brien attacks minister over criticism

The €3m free: Canning forces final replay

Troika review pushes for progress on property tax

Munster hospitals €40m over budget

Autopsy due on two men found dead in house

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/programm...eptember-2012/

[disability student]

Papers were all the rage about CPA as they want to change it now. No wonder because their debt deal with theirpolitical masters has fallen through with no hope of rescuing it or saving it prior to December budget.

It give FG govt a political opportunity to look for other savings such as CPA to appear or make look good in their budgetary papers. Hence no debt deal means CPA would have to be torn up now or sooner before December 2012 budget and hence new CPA mark II with huge savings. The race is on now to look for alternatives in terms of savings once debt deal is gone. They should have gone for the quangos which is roughly estimated around 20bn at least.

[DCon]

Don't have kids if you want to get a mortgage, first-time buyers told

http://www.independent.ie/business/p...d-3226231.html

[DCon]

IMF, Wallace, McIlroy

THE IRISH TIMES

Noonan rejects IMF’s proposed property tax of 0.5% house value

McIlroy denies making decision on Rio Games

Mick Wallace to use ‘leader’s allowance’ to fund research

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

IMF plan to hit our pockets even harder

Gardai are ready to wage war on dissident republicans

How to keep weight down during pregnancy

Village that binned the rules is named Ireland’s tidiest town

China’s new leader goes missing

THE IRISH EXAMINER

IMF: Cut old age pension and social welfare

Sporting smiles: Paralympians get hero’s welcome

Policing committee chairman quits after drink-driving arrest

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/programm...eptember-2012/

[DCon]

funding pensions, paying Wallace, schools letting kids down claim

THE IRISH TIMES

STATE WILL FACE €324BN SHORTFALL OVER PENSIONS

FEW OF 800 PUBLIC SECTOR PAYMENTS TO BE REDUCED

LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY FOR FIRST WORLD WAR SOLDIER’S CIGARETTES

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

SCHOOLS ARE LETTING OUR CHILDREN DOWN, SAYS KEY STUDY

MASSIVE ALERT OVER ‘DOCTOR DEATH’ ECSTASY

WALLACE GOT €60,000 PAY IN SINGLE MONTH

‘LYING EYES’ IS FREE – BUT SHE CAN’T LEAVE THE COUNTRY

THE IRISH EXAMINER

MEDICS WARN OF LETHAL ECSTASY POWDER

TEACHERS ‘SHOULD CORRECT’ THEIR STUDENTS’ EXAM PAPERS

THE IRISH DAILY STAR

LYING EYES IS FREE… AND SINGLE

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/featured...eptember-2012/

[PaddyJoe]

Tomorrow's Sun. Only 23 years late.

[DCon]

NAMA leak, Bank debt deal delayed

THE IRISH TIMES

STATE UNLIKELY TO MEET BANK DEAL DEADLINE CONCEDES NOONAN

TAOISEACH WANTS MORE CROKE PARK SAVINGS

PENALTY POINT SYSTEM CRACKS WHIP OVER DUNG-CATCHER USE

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

BAILOUT EXIT HOPES AFTER €500BN DEBT DEAL SEALED

CONNOLLY EMERGES AS TOP SITE FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

WE WILL PUNISH KILLERS OF OUR DIPLOMATS, VOWS OBAMA

THE IRISH EXAMINER

NAMA LEAK PUTS BILLIONS OF EURO AT RISK

HILLSBOROUGH FAMILIES SEEK JUSTICE FOR 96

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/featured...eptember-2012/

[Baron von Biffo]

As incomes fall the demand for welfare supports grows but our Minister for Lifestyle Choices has hundreds of staff feeding her obsession with fraud while families in need wait months for their claims to be processed.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...as-207455.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Obama sends a death squad to Libya.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news...r-3228207.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Gay Mitchell is lobbying for failed finance minister and former accidental Taoiseach John Bruton to become EU President after Barroso.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...323960731.html

[DCon]

Labour accusing Big Phil

THE IRISH TIMES

Ministers clash over cutbacks for pensioners in budget

Community unites in grief after Spence deaths in Hillsborough

Move to close ‘Irish Daily Star’ disproportionate, says INM

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

Gardai to quiz GP mother on death of daughter

More than 300,000 households face blank TV screens

Rugby star, dad, brother die in bid to rescue family dog

Dealer was ‘spectator’ at Ryan hit

THE IRISH EXAMINER

GP to be quizzed over death

Special needs pupils taught in storage room

Labour accuses Hogan of breaking rules on state board appointments

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/featured...eptember-2012/

[DCon]

FAS staff sending porn by email.

FAS has refused to say if staff were sacked or disciplined after it found they shared pornographic images with other public servants.

An internal audit uncovered up to 187 instances where images of a "highly inappropriate" nature were shared by email, including porn.

It revealed that staff shared the images with their colleagues and workers at the Department of Justice, HSE and four local authorities. The audit by the training agency said some of the images contained "graphic nudity, focus on genitalia or suggestive poses" and "sexual acts including foreplay and self-sex".

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...d-3232435.html

[Baron von Biffo]

A very subtle bit of PS bashing in the Examiner this morning.

"Speculation that civil service planners have fixed on a property tax set at one quarter per cent of the home's value intensified this weekend."

The decision to introduce a property tax and the rate it will be levied at are matters for politicians, not the civil service. Insidious little reports like that help to let politicians off the hook while demonising the PS.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...et-207815.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The RC church digging in over its 'right' to control the sex lives of its staff.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...ts-207756.html