Here are the stories making headlines this Monday.
Comments on violence in the Middle East by President Catherine Connolly are expected to increase pressure on the Government in advance of the St Patrick’s Day visit by Taoiseach Micheál Martin to the Oval Office in Washington, according to The Irish Times.
The Irish Examiner leads with the Government ruling out introducing cost-of-living supports and energy credits amid growing uncertainty about the economic impacts of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
The delivery of new-build social homes in Cork fell by 14 per cent last year, with fewer than 900 homes completed across the city and county, The…