In The Irish Independent, "1,650 tax break for businesses and farmers" as part of their ongoing pre-budget coverage.

The Irish Times goes with "Noonan warns EU against tough tax rules", the Minister for Finance welcomed new OECD rules, but warned officials against going further.

The Irish Examiner has an old photo of floods in Cork on the front page. Courts have now ruled there was a 60% liability with the ESB and a 40% hit for UCC for the 19 million euros of damage caused to the University campus.

Legal fees for that case ran to €10 million.

Also on the front page, a picture of Nobel prize winner in medicine Professor William Campbell, formerly of Trinity.

The Daily Mirror leads with "Brendan's agony" - on the sacking of Liverpool boss Brendan Rogers.

The Irish Daily Mail goes with "Lighting and heating bills skyrocketing" looking back at utility bill hikes since 2010, but oil prices are down so prices unlikely to increase further.

The Daily Star has "16-year-old dead - gardaí chase smash teen dies. Brother was also in car".

The Sun has the figures for ministerial air travel and it has "Fly guys - Government's €4.2 million air bill", including Enda Kenny's nearly €9,000 helicopter ride to Cork to see of the LE Eithne.

And The Herald has "Killer's farewell to slain brother" about Gary Hutch's funeral today. His brother has been given leave from Mountjoy for the ceremony.

From the internet, not yet in the papers, Chris had the story of the plane pilot who died of a heart attack in the US, while at the controls and the audio of the MayDay call his co-pilot made to a control tower.

On The Irish Times' front page an extraordinarry medical story from the Rotunda hospital, where 128 twin babies lives have been saved in the womb. All of the babies were in danger from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, whereby one twin gets blood from the other twin. Surgeons go in with tiny cameras, while the babies are still in the womb, and tweak the blood supply ensuring their survival.

In The Herald, Ivan enjoyed the story of Hollywood's Joan Collins, who was visiting Newbridge Silver's Museum of Style Icons with her fifth husband when she admitted she is irked by all of the misdirected email that she is getting about Irish Water protests. That correspondance, of course, intended for Anti Austerity Alliance TD Joan Collins.

Ivan Yates finished up with the story that Chris Donoghue has decided to leave UTV Ireland and focus instead on presenting Newstalk's Breakfast Show.

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