Tuesday, May 8: Tabloids' Headlines

What do the tabloids say about the election on their frontpages?

Irish Daily Mirror talks about 'Kenny's dirty tricks' and how Noeal Ahern 'points fingers at Fine Gael over tribunal leaks'.

Irish Daily Mail leads with an article on the repercussions of nurses' strike. 'Now patients are suffering'. The paper finds some space (alongside a photo of increasingly bizarre looking Melanie Griffith) for the Mahon tribunal leaks. The headline says 'McDowell: I'm not the Mahon mole'.

Evening Herald cleared its frontpage for a photo of Dublin's M50, where the truckers' protest was supposed to take place this morning. The truckers didn't show in expected (and much feared) numbers and the morning traffic was even better than usual.

The Irish Sun doesn't feature any election material on its frontpages. We find the report on the Kenny vs. McDowell spat on page 8. 'Kenny and McDowell's Bertie leak showdown' - says the dramatic title.

Irish Daily Star opens up with 'Thugs bust open cop's head' - an article on garda who was attacked by a gang of vicious youths. The now familiar Kenny vs. McDowell story is there too, with the title 'Mullah furious at leaks claim'.

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