{"id":487578,"date":"2026-05-16T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:54:12","slug":"what-the-papers-say-saturdays-front-pages-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487578\/","title":{"rendered":"What the papers say: Saturday&#8217;s front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Fleming announcing he is gay and the latest RT\u00c9 payment scandal are just some of the topics featured on Saturday&#8217;s front pages.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times lead with a building tycoon suing John Magnier and his stud business, and the Defence Forces considering the use of AI weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"765\" width=\"502\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928848_208_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900731\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Examiner lead with there being 1,000 domestic abuse reports a week last year, RT\u00c9&#8217;s latest payment scandal resulting in a meeting with the media minister, and singer Tommy Fleming revealing that he is gay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"767\" width=\"492\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928849_249_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900725\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Independent lead with &#8220;runaway price increases&#8221; in staple household food items, diesel and a pint of stout since 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"616\" width=\"466\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928850_740_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900727\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Herald lead with a tenant sharing a Dublin house with a couple, not knowing that his housemates were secretly running an online drugs business.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"618\" width=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928850_41_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900726\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mail lead with a man who was convicted of the murder of a man in 1979 canvassing with the Sinn F\u00e9in byelection candidate in Dublin Central.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"622\" width=\"472\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928851_737_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900728\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star both lead with Tommy Fleming coming out as gay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"637\" width=\"496\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928851_77_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1900729\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"605\" width=\"486\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928852_733_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900730\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Belfast Telegraph lead with an investigation into a controversial Northern Ireland &#8220;brand-building&#8221; company potentially taking another two years to conclude.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"616\" width=\"465\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778928852_365_what-the-papers-say-saturday-s-front-pages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1900724\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleming announcing he is gay and the latest RT\u00c9 payment scandal are just some of the topics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-487578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}