The cold snap being felt by the entire country features on many front pages of Irish newspapers.
The Irish Times leads with an updated programme of building works for the new national children’s hospital being agreed for the first time in almost four years.
Also featuring on the paper's front page is a piece on Apple having lobbied Tánaiste Micheál Martin and other Fianna Fáil politicians on transport infrastructure issues in Cork during a visit to the company’s Irish headquarters.
The Department of Health has rowed back on a pledge to give free hormone replacement therapy to thousands of women from this week, according to the Irish Examiner.
On the front page of The Echo, a story on a rise in road deaths in Co Cork features, as well as a story about a mother of an eight-month-old blaming mould and damp in their council house for her child's chest infection.
The Irish Independent reports on a rise in European wholesale gas prices sparking fears of higher residential electricity and gas prices in Ireland.
The nationwide low temperature warning takes centre stage on the front page of the Irish Daily Star, with discourse on Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold also featuring on the paper's front page.
The ice-cold weather conditions also feature on the front page of the Irish Daily Mail, which reports on Meghan Markle's Netflix documentary as well.
The Herald reports on the statistics of items being smuggled into men's prisons in Ireland last year, as well as transfer window deals in the Premier League concerning Manchester United's Marcus Rashford.
In the UK...
Calls for an inquiry into the Oldham child sex abuse scandal and the future of social care are among the stories making headlines in Friday’s newspapers.
The Times and The Guardian both splash on a Labour-planned upheaval to social care and services in the UK, with ministers eager to launch an independent commission to assist with reform.
The Daily Express leads on demands made by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for a full nationwide inquiry into Britain’s “rape gangs scandal”, while The Daily Telegraph says the Labour Party blocked a CPS probe in the wake of child sex abuse at Oldham.
The Daily Mail leads on the salaries paid to NHS managers as its says hospital wait times balloon, emergency services continue to crack under the pressure and public health services fail to meet essential performance targets.
The Daily Mirror leads with a call for Second World War veterans to lead memorial commemorations for VE/VJ days in 2025.
The i reports that millions of people across the UK may have to pay to have hot water with an incoming net zero push to phase out older gas systems.
Economists have reported in the Financial Times that tax increases are likely for the UK in 2025 with all signs seeming to point towards the inevitable due to a sluggish economy.
And, the Daily Star reveals that Britons are planning to flee the UK’s bitter winter frost in droves with travel firms booking two holidays to sunny destinations per second.
