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"No trees in your bedroom!" - The Newspaper Review

A Cabinet sub-committee on housing is meeting today ahead of the weekly government meeting tomorr...
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08.07 2 Nov 2015


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"No trees in your bedroom!" - The Newspaper Review

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08.07 2 Nov 2015


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A Cabinet sub-committee on housing is meeting today ahead of the weekly government meeting tomorrow and the papers have different takes on the rent certainty proposals.

The Irish Times leads with "Think tank backs Kelly's stance on rent control".

The Examiner goes the other way "Rent controls would kill off property investment, landlord group warns". 

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The lead in that paper says 200 offers of social housing were turned down last year.

And the other story on the Times' front page is about drug injection rooms Minister Aodhán Ó Riordán wants to introduce.

The Irish Independent "New plan to tackle worst 200 burglars".

That paper also runs with "Gilmore and Kenny had full scale rows about water bills", another disclosure from Eamon Gilmore's memoir.

The Herald has "Killed as he tried to stop a fight - Halloween horror as Lorcan (21) knifed and five others stabbed".

The Irish Daily Star: "Halloween stab horror - man killed, 14-year-old is the suspect".

The Irish Daily Mirror: "Halloween stab horror - peacemaker Lorcan (21) killed in a night of violence".

The Irish Daily Mail: "Please help me get my children", the story one Irish woman tells of the alleged abduction of her two children by her former Algerian partner.

The Irish Sun has pictures of airplane debris from the Egypt plane crash. Overnight, the revelation that the Irish Aviation Authority recently cleared that plane after safety checks.

Ivan Yates was interested in proposals to axe zero hours contracts - they are to come before Cabinet next week.

"Cork cashes out" in The Examiner is a story about how the regional capital is to promote the use of debit and credit cards over cash.

In The Irish Daily Mail has details of the latest Christmas excesses, a survey has found that an increasing number of families are buying mini Christmas trees for kids' bedrooms.

The Star has a picture of Tulsa Jack, the horse that won the Cork Grand National yesterday. The horse is owned by a syndicate of politicians including former Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett.

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