Wednesday, May 9: Tabloids' Headlines

It's quite a different story in the tabloids, where crime stories rule the frontpages.

The Irish Daily Mail put the picture of Paisley and McGuiness (under the headline 'The picture we thought we'd never live to see'), but the main story was about a death of a newborn baby: 'Baby 'drowned in birth pool'
Irish Daily Mirror and Evening Herald went with stories on raids in jail cells of gangsters. The headlines were 'Crimelords stripped in their cells' (Mirror) and 'Gilligan has cell phone seized' (Herald). It seems that crime still sells papers.

So does Roy Keane as The Irish Sun put 'Phoney Stan & Roy war' on its frontpage. Roy Keane refuses to talk to Steve Staunton and only sends him texts. Is it really so surprising in the age when 160 characters of a single text message is often our absolute limit? And Roy Keane always struck me as a man of few words.

And so to the Irish Daily Star. We can see Paisley and McGuinnes squished into the corner (with 'Grin and share it' headline), but the main story is once again crime-related. 'Thugs ruined my big day' says Margaret Darby whose wedding party was attacked by thugs.

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Wednesday, May 9: Headlines

The photo of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness dominated the frontpages of all the broadsheets today.

The Irish Times summarized the historic day at Stormont with 'Paisley and McGuiness pledge to govern for a better future'.

Irish Independent went with 'Happy are the peacemakers', and Irish Examiner with 'Hope and History Rhyme'.

The Irish Times was the only newspaper to find space on its frontpage for an election story. 'PDs take conciliatory approach towards FF' talks about the changed stance of PDs towards their coalition partners.


Oh, and Kevin Myers believes that Bertie is innocent.
The Indo informs us about it on the frontpage.

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Frontpages, May 9

The Irish Times, May 9.

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