7:10am It Says in the Papers

Now Lisa Pereira is here with a look at what it says in today's papers.

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste were forced to intervene to diffuse the row over RTE funding. That's according to The Irish Times. The paper reports that following those contacts with Minister me- for Media, Patrick O'Donovan, there was a hastily arranged meeting with RTE Board Chairman Terence O'Rourke and Director General Kevin Bachurst. Afterwards, both sides sought to de-escalate tensions. The headline says, "RTE is likely to receive the lost," and lost is in inverted commas, "twenty million euro if reforms are on track." In an editorial, The Irish Independent looks at funding for RTE in bygone days when families would gather around the TV with rabbit ear aerials and fuzzy images. In those days, having a TV license was sacrosanct, but RTE controversies combined with the arrival of digital streaming have given viewers an excuse not to buy a license, and the government is due to assess its future. "It's time to make the TV license picture less fuzzy," says the headline. "I only wanted to kill my father and brother." That's the headline on the front of The Irish Daily Mirror. In common with most other papers, it covers the trial of Robert O'Connor, who's accused of the triple murder of his mother, Louise, father, Mark, and brother, Evan, at their home in Dundalk in two thousand and twenty-five. The court heard that Robert told Gardai he'd had a row over drugs, lost his head, and only meant to kill his father and brother, but not his mother. O'Connor, aged thirty-two, of Drumgowna, Louth Village, pleaded not guilty of murder by reason of insanity or guilty of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility. Sinn Féin politicians have been contacted by police over their roles in the Garvaghy Road protests. The Belfast Telegraph reports that a number of representatives and party members received letters from the PSNI relating to alleged breaches of a Parade's Commission decision to allow the Orange Order to march down the road. High-profile figures, including former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and First Minister Michelle O'Neill, attended protests on the Garvaghy Road against the march. The Irish Examiner carries a sixteen-page supplement on pensions this morning. There's seemingly no aspect of pensions it doesn't cover, including the surprising fact that many us of, many of us have pensions we don't even know about, at least five hundred million euro worth, according to the Pensions Authority. John Ahern reports that just over one in four adults either lack full details of their workplace pension savings or suspect they've lost track of at least one pension pot altogether. In another article, Rita de Bruin points out that the half billion euro in unclaimed pensions is enough to buy sixteen custom-built Rolls-Royce Drop Tails, along with a full grid of twenty Formula One racing cars. Sleeping with your dog could disturb their sleep. That's according to Canadian scientists in a study originally published in the research journal PLOS One and carried in The Independent. The scientists use wearable technology to show that humans who share the same room as their canines are