The Front Pages
The funeral of RTE broadcaster Gerry Ryan runs as the main story on most national newspapers today.
The Irish Examiner goes with a poignant portrayal of yesterday’s funeral service in Clontarf. A collage of pictures including the immediate Ryan family walking behind the hearse is striking. Just a few paragraph’s sum up Gerry Ryan, and his funeral service, very well. “There was a small church for a giant personality,†reads the article.
The Irish Independent has more detail on the funeral and concentrates on what was said in the church. Both his eldest daughter Lottie and wife Morah gave emotional tributes to Gerry at St John the Baptist Church.
In another major story, a 19-year-old Irishman, David Curran, was found guilty of murder of two Polish mechanics. The murders took place in 2008 when the Drimnagh youth stabbed the Polish men to death. The Indo says that Mr. Curran is facing a life sentence.
Finally, it was election day in the United Kingdom yesterday and The Irish Times headline “Tories party in hung parliament, say exit polls.†Conservative leader David Cameron is just 19 seats short of a majority and it’s looking like the Labour party’s hope of forming an alliance with Liberal Democrats has crumbled.
