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

[Baron von Biffo]

The self employed are bleating again about not getting benefits they haven't paid for.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...ed-209806.html

The €87m figure is almost certainly an under estimation as there would be very good grounds for past and present PS workers recruited before 1995 to claim equal entitlement to any concessions granted to the self employed.

[DCon]

Captain Obvious has got a job with the Times

"Major infrastructure project in centre of Dublin will disrupt traffic"

[DCon]

Reilly, HSE, Quinn/Junior Cert changes, bank debt deal hope

THE IRISH TIMES

HSE to implement home cuts of €8m
Obama team reconsiders strategy after Romney debate win
Work on latest Luas line will disrupt city centre traffic

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

Kenny tells Reilly to make peace with Gilmore in site fallout
EU chief’s backing a boost for bank debt deal hope
Poignant last photos of a happy Ciara
Teachers won’t get extra pay in exam overhaul

THE IRISH EXAMINER

Outrage as sex attacker avoids jail term
Dairygold gets green light for €120m facility upgrade
Quinn: Radical reforms will end ‘teaching to the test’

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

[Baron von Biffo]

A binman was crushed to death in the back of his truck yesterday.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...k-3250363.html

A basic safety measure for that work would ensure that the operator had to constantly hold the control for the compactor to operate. That way if he did fall in the machine would stop operating.

[Baron von Biffo]

FG justice ministers just can't help themselves.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3250356.html

Creating opportunities for gangs by by pulling gardaí out of rural Ireland is at odds with the rhetoric though.

[DCon]

tomorrow's front pages today

[Baron von Biffo]

One to watch.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...d-3251170.html

[DCon]

One to watch.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...d-3251170.html

a lot to be looked at there

It is also alleged that the MEPs, while employing the two women, submitted allowance claims for two other persons. The former politicians deny the claims and are seeking court orders striking out their actions for alleged abuse of process.

[DCon]

Tomorrow's Indo front page

[DCon]

Times Front page

[DCon]

as above plus the Examiner

THE IRISH TIMES

Bishop knew priest moved by him went onto abuse
Coalition to reappraise IFSC lobby group ties
City no longer flush asks private firms to let public use their loos

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

FG deputies get cold feet over child benefit cuts
Thousands of customers to get €3,000 back from major banks

THE IRISH EXAMINER

Mis-sold policies to cost banks millions
Bruton: Banks have ‘recoiled’ from lending
Coveney: Dumping of over-quota of fish to end
Departments lobbied against plans to end sport sponsorship by drink firms

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

[DCon]

turns out Liquid Nitrogen is best not used as a mixer

A teenager has had an emergency operation to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail laced with liquid nitrogen while celebrating her 18th birthday in a wine bar.

Gaby Scanlon, from Heysham, Lancashire, was with friends at Oscar's wine bar in Lancaster city centre when she began to feel ill, becoming breathless and developing severe stomach pain.

She was taken to hospital at 11pm on Thursday, where she was diagnosed with a perforated stomach. Surgeons operated immediately to save her life. Lancashire police said: "Medical opinion is that this would have proved fatal had the operation not been carried out urgently." She is now in a serious but stable condition in the Lancaster Royal Infirmary.

An investigation is taking place into the circumstances of how she was given the drink. Once added to alcohol, liquid nitrogen makes the drink appear surrounded by a cloud of white or grey vapour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oc...?newsfeed=true

[DCon]

Today's journalistic efforts

THE IRISH TIMES

Advisors tells Bruton to axe disability allowance for under-18’s
Book of evidence a blockbuster as trio of Anglo bankers sent for trial
Reilly in aide advised home help firm in lucrative HSE deal

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

Drivers using mobile phones to be hit with penalty points
Families get visits from social welfare inspectors
Woman duped priest out of €130,000 says family
They’re ‘all shook up’ as RTE celebrates the music

THE IRISH EXAMINER

Female hospital staff face the sack for showing too much skin
Anglo trio face ‘unlawful financial assistance’ trial
IMF: We got effect of austerity wrong

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

[C. Flower]

Today's journalistic efforts




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

I wonder who the mystery "advisors" are ? Not the first mention they have been given pre budget 2013.

The IMF report apparently says that the IMF has bee wrong since the 1970s about the devastating effects of their neoliberal polices.

I thought that had been established, in practice, in hundreds of "programmes."

[Baron von Biffo]

FGs Catherine Byrne reckons that child benefit shouldn't be cut where parents are in negative equity.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...ut-210262.html

I wonder if, in the interests of consistency, she would support paying CB to people without children who are in negative equity.