What the papers say: Thursday's front pages
Ottoline Spearman
Further attacks on oil fields and rising fuel costs, and St Patrick's day incidents dominate the front pages of Irish papers this Thursday morning.
Parts of South Lebanon risk being cut off from the rest of the country as a wave of Israeli strikes have hit key bridges, just 14 hours after an evacuation order for the southern city of Tyre. Israel claims that it is striking the bridges because they are being used by Hizbullah.
Also on the front page of the Irish Times is the expected demolition of an illegally built house in Co Meath which is expected today. The house was possessed by the council on Monday. And a new report funded by Stripe founders, the Collison brothers, has warned of the dependence of the country on large tech companies, which leaves the country exposed.
An arrest has been made in connection with the stabbing of father-of-one Oleksandr Zhyvytskyi in Cork city. The Irish Examiner also reports on the strike of Iran's Pars gas field, which has sent oil prices soaring further.
The Echo leads with the three vacant homes in Glanmire, Cork city, that have remained empty for 18 years due to "legal issues with title".
The Tánaiste has said that the Government will implement an "appropriate intervention" to tackle rising fuel and energy costs, reports the Irish Independent.
The splash of the Irish Daily Mirror is on an attack in Limerick City on St Patrick's day that left a father for dead, eight years to the day after his son was killed.
A St Patrick's Day parade in Co Mayo with floats relating to the Epstein files have been lambasted as "tasteless", "disgraceful" and "sickening", according to the Irish Daily Star.
There are fears of oil prices soaring to $200 a barrel, says the Irish Daily Mail, as Iran has ramped up its strikes on oil and gas plants.
A top GP has tried to assauge worries of a meningitis outbreak in the UK, reports the Belfast Telegraph, saying that while it is "dangerous", it is "far less contagious than Covid".
And finally, the Herald reports that Patrick Harte, described by a judge as a "sexual predator", has been jailed for four years.
