What the papers say: Friday's front pages

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What The Papers Say: Friday's Front Pages
All the top stories from the day's national papers.
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The deaths of three young people in a crash in Co Carlow are covered across the national papers on Friday.

The Irish Times reports on the three victims being named locally, while the Irish Examiner carries comments from a local garda, who described Wednesday night's incident as a tragedy.

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The Examiner also runs the findings of a survey which found the public remains sceptical about reform RTÉ, after further revelations emerged regarding the national broadcaster earlier this week.

The Echo leads with an image and story on a murder investigation to be launched after remains discovered in Co Cork were identified as those of Kieran Quilligan.

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'In the prime of their lives', the Irish Independent's headline reads, in reference to the young people killed in the Carlow crash, while the Irish Daily Mail's main story is: 'Big push to get tough on welfare payments to Ukrainians'.

Finally, while both the Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star lead with stories on the Carlow crash, they also cover the death of former model Lisa Murphy following her death aged 51.

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In Britain, the Friday papers are dominated by the hunt for the suspect in the alkaline substance attack in London which left a girl and her mother with potentially life-changing injuries.

The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail report the suspect, Abdul Ezedi, is understood to be a convicted sex offender who was twice denied asylum.

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Meanwhile, The Sun says the injured mother screamed “I can’t see, I can’t see” after the attack.

Elsewhere, the Daily Express reports UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering taking a penny off National Insurance in the budget.

But millions of Britons face a “stealth tax” effect which will drag them into higher rates of income taxation, according to the i.

The Times and Financial Times both lead with the Bank of England keeping interest rates at 5.25 per cent.

The Guardian reports the US has ordered strikes against an Iran-backed militia following an attack on an American base on Sunday.

The Daily Mirror carries a plea from Paul Gascoigne to Marcus Rashford, urging the Manchester United forward not to “make the same mistakes as me”.

Rashford is reported to have gone out in Belfast last Thursday night until 3am, before call in ill the following day and going on to miss Sunday’s FA Cup win at Newport.

The Independent carries the latest in its campaign to grant Afghan soldiers asylum in the UK.

Civil servants have been told rolling their eyes in a meeting at work could be classed as a microaggression, according to the Metro.

And the Daily Star says an Instagram fraudster is pretending to be Liverpool’s potential new manager Xabi Alonso.

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