What the papers say: Tuesday's front pages
Ottoline Spearman
Plans to cut fuel and oil prices from midnight tonight, as well as the guilty plea of a self-declared ISIS supporter who stabbed a garda and conducted an arson attack on Conor McGregor's pub are the main stories this Tuesday morning.
A company in Co Limerick, Aughinish Alumina, supplies vast amounts of raw materials to Russian aluminium smelters, according to a new investigation by the Irish Times. The smelters supply aluminium to a Moscow-based trading company which is bought by dozens of arms companies that make weapons for Russia’s war in Ukraine, including tanks, cruise missiles and bombers. And the prices of oil and diesel are to set to be cut from midnight tonight as the energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East deepens.
The Irish Examiner also covers the €250m package that is set to come into effect tonight, cutting prices at the pumps until the end of May. An investigation is underway into the activists group of jihadists linked to a man who stabbed a garda and carried out an arson attack on Conor McGregor's pub. And a Cork teenager who has developed a web-based maritime surveillance platform to predict the movements of ships that evade conventional tracking systems is being tipped for a national student award.
Cork City Council has agreed to waive more than a third of the €800,000 owed in derelict site levies on the site of a former Magdalene laundry, in what has been branded a "disgrace", according to The Echo.
The Irish Independent also looks at the package to cut fuel costs - which will not include any energy credits like those that were introduced in response to the war in Ukraine.
The Irish Daily Mirror reports that motorists have been warned that the measures announced tonight may take days to lower prices at the pumps.
The Irish Daily Mail also covers the fuel measures.
The Irish Daily Star leads with the man who stabbed a garda and carried out an arson attack on Conor McGregor's pub, who pleaded guilty on Monday.
The Herald also has this story, reporting that the man said that the attacks were "a message for the Government and a message for Conor McGregor".
And finally, the Belfast Telegraph leads with the tragic case of Natalie McNally. On Monday, a jury took just over two hours to unanimously find Lisburn man Stephen Mccullagh guilty of killing his pregnant partner in December 2022.
