The Front Pages
Irish Independent readers are greeted with a fairly shocking headline by the broadsheet’s standards this morning: ‘Get out, rapist’. The article relates to an angry crowd that was dispersed by Gardai outside Priorswoods House in Coolock last night, after speculation that newly-freed convicted rapist Larry Murphy was staying in the government-run halfway house.
Up to 60 protestors gathered outside the Priorswood House and began chanting “get him out†last night, though director of Priorswood, Lisa Cuthbert, insisted Murhy was not staying there. Murphy, 45, was freed after serving just over 10 years of 15-year sentence for the rape, abduction and attempted murder of a businesswoman.
The Irish Times runs an altogether different story this morning – under the headline ‘PRSI could be extended to ‘unearned income’ in next budget. The Times claim that Government officials are examining the option of making employees pay PRSI contributions on ‘rental income, investments, share options and other ‘unearned income’.
Currently internal documents are being prepared for the secretary general of the Department of Social Protection and include removing the income threshold under which lower-paid workers don’t have to make PRSI contributions and ensuring employees and the self-employed pay the same rate of PRSI.
