What the papers say: Sunday's front pages

Here are the stories making headlines this Sunday.

Tens of thou­sands of pas­sen­gers will face travel dis­rup­tion over the com­ing weeks as Aer Lin­gus cuts more than 500 flights from its sched­ule, according to the Sunday Independent.

The air­line said the dis­rup­tion is being caused by a require­ment for “man­dat­ory main­ten­ance” on air­craft, but it comes against the back­drop of a grow­ing crisis in the avi­ation sec­tor over the cost and avail­ab­il­ity of jet fuel.

Nabbed mob boss Daniel Kina­han had ruled out any plans to flee Dubai for Iran or Rus­sia because he believed he would be arres­ted if he ever tried to leave, the Irish Sunday Mirror reports.

The Sunday World leads with US government offi­cials helping gardaí build a case against Daniel Kina­han by hack­ing into encryp­ted devices seized from Car­tel lieu­ten­ant Sean McGov­ern.

Taoiseach Micheál Mar­tin gave an ulti­matum to Michael Healy-Rae that a private ‘two-for-one’ deal he and his brother Danny agreed in sup­port of the Gov­ern­ment would have to be upheld before the Kerry TD quit the Coali­tion.

The Irish Mail on Sunday reveals that the Taoiseach’s chief of staff, Deirdre Gil­lane, con­tac­ted Michael Healy-Rae on Monday night when it became appar­ent Danny was going to vote against the Gov­ern­ment in the no-con­fid­ence motion tabled by Sinn Féin in the Dáil the fol­low­ing day.

PTSB shareholders were advised to reject Bawag deal, according to the Business Post.

The €1.62 billion value of the deal was at a discount to PTSB's reported end-2025 net assets of just under €2.02 billion.