Irish Independent : Irish News

• New Housing Minister James Browne will appoint ‘maverick’ fixer to ‘kick open doors’ and tackle homes crisis
• High flyers, heated rows, close bonds: How the Ryans of Ryanair – and Michael O’Leary – changed the way we travel
• Chinese investors complain to gardaí and legal regulator over €1m ‘golden visa’ investments they now fear are lost
• Arts Council gave €36,000 in grants to serial fraudster Samantha Cookes who was using fake name
• X-ray machine bought by National Gallery for €125,000 lying idle for eight years due to radiation risk
• Law to unravel triple lock for sending Irish troops abroad to be fast-tracked by Simon Harris

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• Five-year–old boy injured fatally in Portlaoise road traffic collision
• Man dead after collision between quad bike and motorcycle in Co Westmeath
• New average speed camera to go live in Co Meath next week
• Man in hospital after gun attack in Dublin
• Family of Co Donegal man ‘clinging to life’ after attack criticises Garda response
• Abolishing means testing of carer’s allowance could cost €3bn a year