What the Newspapers Are Saying: Monday’s Front Pages

Threats from the UK to act on the Northern Ireland protocol are covered in national newspapers on Monday.
Ahead of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to Belfast, Irish weather warns that any unilateral action taken by the UK on the post-Brexit trade deal “could lead to retaliation by the EU”.
The newspaper also reports that Denis O’Brien has intervened with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) in an attempt to help Siteserv co-founder Brian Harvey with his personal debt problems.
echo leads with ‘the community on high alert after a man in his 20s fired a shot’ following an incident in the Churchfield area of Cork City over the weekend.
During this time, the Irish Daily Mail says “300,000 haven’t updated home values in nine years,” warning homeowners that their salary or pension could be deducted at source, citing Revenue.
The diary also features an image of Eurovision 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine, who said they would celebrate their victory ‘after the war’.
Finally, the Irish Examiner reports An Bord Pleanála is to concede a legal challenge in a matter being investigated for a potential conflict of interest by Council Vice Chairman Paul Hyde.
The newspaper also says that 247 employees of Cork City Council each received over €20,000 in overtime and expenses in 2020.
In Britain, the front pages are also dominated by emergency talks between Mr Johnson and political leaders in Northern Ireland in a bid to break a protocol-caused Stormont standoff.
The Independentthe Daily Expressthe I and The Daily Telegraph all lead with the protocol row deepening as the UK PM attempts to negotiate with the EU.
The latter adds that Mr Johnson has warned that the Northern Ireland protocol is preventing the UK government from contributing to the cost of living crisis as it prepares to approve legislation removing key elements of the agreement.
Monday’s INDEPENDENT Digital: ‘End protocol using flexibility Ukraine has shown, Britain tells EU’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/DJMyXRMVwx
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) May 15, 2022
Monday’s Daily EXPRESS: ‘Boris warns EU: We will act if you don’t change’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/YuW85oi7WA
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) May 15, 2022
Monday’s i – “The Prime Minister’s bet risks a trade war with the EU” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/79ekZVrvd1
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) May 15, 2022
📰 Tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph front page:
“The Prime Minister attacks Brussels over the cost of living crisis”#TomorrowsPapersToday
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– The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 15, 2022
Elsewhere, the Daily mail and The sun carry images of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as she attends the first of her national Platinum Jubilee events.
Monday Daily Mail: “Radiant, happy and simply… glorious” #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/0CISHNp0qW
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) May 15, 2022
Tomorrow’s headline: The Queen is all smiles as Top Gun movie star Tom Cruise kicked off his 70th Jubilee celebrations with a bang pic.twitter.com/OEgxMECXXS
— The Sun (@TheSun) May 15, 2022
The temperature carries an interview with the new Chief Inspector of the Gendarmerie, with him telling the newspaper that the police force “are not the “thought police” and must focus on reducing crime given that the rates of charges are at their lowest in more than 30 years.
TIMES Monday: ‘You are not the thought police, senior officials said’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/E0MMzbYjh1
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) May 15, 2022
The Guardian, Meanwhile, reports say police chiefs have accused UK Home Secretary Priti Patel of a ‘power grab’ that would allow her to intervene in local law enforcement matters and silence chiefs who wish to speak out on issues deemed politically sensitive.
Guardian front page, Monday 16/5/22: Police chiefs accuse Home Secretary of ‘power grab’ pic.twitter.com/gmbfcAKcow
— Guardian News (@guardiannews) May 15, 2022
“Ukraine’s provocative promise: Kyiv will host Eurovision”, Metro written, after the beleaguered country won the international song contest over the weekend.
Tomorrow’s newspaper tonight 📰
🔴 UKRAINE’S PROMISE: KYIV HOSTS EUROVISION.#Tomorrowspaperstoday
Learn more here 👇https://t.co/SdVazIYOjR pic.twitter.com/gZ5vQnUaRW
— Metro (@MetroUK) May 15, 2022
the FinancialTimes erupts with the “new era” signaled by Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Just published: front page of the UK edition of the Financial Times, Monday May 16 https://t.co/YxhUj4PuJF pic.twitter.com/t026wI6cgW
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 15, 2022
the DailyMirror covers the racially motivated mass shooting that occurred this weekend in Buffalo in the United States, which saw an 18-year-old white man kill 10 people in a supermarket.
Tomorrow’s front page: Victims of hate #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/t29iFnw8mj pic.twitter.com/5BhGOW4bDL
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) May 15, 2022
And the daily star reports that Britain is about to be ‘battered by thunderstorms’ and a second heat wave.
Monday’s front page: Flash bang wallop 💥💥💥#TomorrowsPapersTodayhttps://t.co/sgvK8errR1 pic.twitter.com/nP9h0sdlTZ
– Daily Star (@dailystar) May 15, 2022