Greece remains the main story of the day for most of the papers, while images of a crash at the Tour de France and a wounded and downbeat Rory McIlroy also graced many of today’s front pages.
The Irish Times leads with “Tspiras to present new proposals at emergency EU summit”, and the image of the aftermath of the crash in yesterday’s Tour de France stage.
The Irish Examiner tells us “ECB pushes Greece closer to euro exit”, with a story on minors being forced to hide drugs internally to sneak them into prisons also on the front page.
The Irish Independent carries a photo of former Greek Finance Minister Yanus Varoufakis, departing the Ministry of Finance in Athens yesterday on his motorbike, with his wife on the back. The headlines reads, “Varoufakis rides off into Greek sunset”.
The main story on the front page of the Independent is, “Germany fears knock-on debt write-off for Ireland.”
The tabloids take interest in an unfortunate injury to Rory McIlroy. McIlroy is on the front of both the Irish Daily Mirror and the Irish Daily Star, with the Star calling Rory ‘The Claret Mug’ after he injured his ankle while playing football with friends, putting the defence of his Open title in serious doubt.
The Irish Sun meanwhile leads with ‘The Baby Boozers’ – covering the story of a new report that finds drinking during pregnancy in Ireland is a “significant public health concern”.
With Rory McIlroy’s injury spread across most of the papers Chris asked Ivan if he felt it had been a bit unfair of people to criticse McIlroy for playing football so close to the Open.
“Was that unfair?,” he asked Ivan.
“No I think it was a bit stupid,” Ivan answered.
Chris picked up on a story in the Daily Telegraph that found that the bally boys and girls at Wimbledon run almost as much as the players. Having supplied a few of the ball boys and girls with pedometers to measure their movement, the paper found that during a match they moved just 1,500 steps fewer than the players.
Ivan meanwhile was interested in a story about the proposed redevelopment of several CIE sites in Dublin, and the news that a cup of tea a day can keep the broken bones away.
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