It’s getting to the stage where if I never hear of another celeb break-up story again it will be too soon. Just joking – we in the media love other peoples’ misery.
Anyway, there was a little glimmer of light on the topic of celebrity relationships splattered across the front page of The Irish Sun this morning.
Apparently ‘It’s all back Yvonne for Ro’, whatever that’s supposed to mean. There might be a pun or a song reference in there somewhere that I’m not getting. Anyway, the gist of the story is that Ronan has apologised to his missus for doing the dirt on her with a dancer and she’s forgiven him. Good man yourself Ro.
The Irish Sun also has a bit of a ‘scoop’ on page 2 – apparently bin fees are going to be hiked by 400%. You see what I did there? Bins? Scoop? Eh, eh? Oh.
The paper has decided to relegate what is probably one of the biggest scandals in international relations in the past decade, to page 7. They reckon that an Irish activist is among those to have been shot in what is described as Israel’s ‘Act of Piracy’.
The Irish Daily Mail has done the decent thing by running the story of Israeli special forces attacking a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza, resulting in somewhere between nine and 19 deaths, as its lead. ‘Bloodbath on the High Seas’ is the headline.
That strange little paper which always seems to find a spot on the shelves of Irish newsagents despite the fact that you never see anyone either buying or reading it, The Daily Express, has lead with a story about how the British taxpayer is paying out £44m on drug substitutes for imprisoned addicts. ‘£44m scandal of jail junkies’ is the suitably outraged headline. Sucks to be them.
The Mirror meanwhile has decided to go with the Israeli raid story. They are focusing on how protests have been sparked in cities across the world as people take to the streets to vent their anger over the deadly attack. Â This one might run for a while.
