What the papers say: Friday's front pages

Eva Osborne

The weather and Thursday's fatal bus crash in Dublin dominate the front pages of Irish newspapers on Friday.

Large areas of Ireland remain on alert today, with more heavy rain expected after flooding disrupted travel and public transport in Dublin and across the southeast yesterday, The Irish Times reports.

The Irish Examiner leads with the bus crash in Dublin, which resulted in the death of a man in his 80s and injuries to three other people.

Residents on the northside of Cork city say discoloured water is again coming from their taps, and expressed fears that the issue is becoming 'normalised', The Echo reports.

The Dublin bus crash and the weather dominate the front page of Friday's Irish Independent.

Damage to roads, residential properties, and commerical properties is expected as flooding continues.

The Taoiseach has admitted more needs to be done to improve flood defences - after it was revealed just a third of an allocated €19.3 million for a national warning system was spent, The Irish Daily Mirror reports.

The Irish Daily Star leads with the Dublin bus crash, and also reports on the Regency attack­ers following the 10th anniversayr of David Byrne's murder.

Irish ‘illeg­als’ are quit­ting Don­ald Trump’s Amer­ica vol­un­tar­ily to avoid being caught up in swoops by Immig­ra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE) agents, according to the Irish Daily Mail.

The Herald reports on a wit­nesses to Thursday's fatal bus crash on a Dub­lin city street telling how they thought it was “a bomb going off”.