What the papers say: Saturday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Saturday.

A vessel that regularly transports cargo from Aughinish Alumina, the Co Limerick industrial plant, to Russia was observed dropping its anchor near critical subsea cables off the Irish west coast last year after collecting a shipment from the plant, The Irish Times reports.

The Irish Examiner leads with more than 400 charges and summonses being issued under Coco’s Law, as human rights organisations raise concerns about the surge in the non-consensual sharing of intimate images.

Health chiefs have done a U-turn and agreed to buy an enhanced flu vac­cine for over-65s for next winter, des­pite last year say­ing that it was not value for money, according to the Irish Independent.

Fail­ure to order the “super­jab” last year amid a flu surge caused ten­sions in the Cab­inet.

The man sued along­side Conor Mcgregor by Nikita Hand has made a crim­inal com­plaint to gardaí about her.

James Lawrence – already suing Hand in the civil court – made alleg­a­tions about her in a state­ment to gardaí last month, the Irish Daily Mir­ror learned.

The Irish Daily Star leads with Irish fans breaking streaming records when tuning in for the game against the Czech Republic.

At one point, 1.6 million people tuned in.

A ‘blame game’ has erup­ted in Gov­ern­ment over Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion over­runs, with Jack Cham­bers launch­ing a ‘scath­ing’ attack on Helen McEntee and Norma Foley, former hold­ers of the port­fo­lio, accoridng to the Irish Daily Mail.

The Herald leads with the mother of a man who was choked to death and dumped in a quarry telling her son’s killer: “I hope you rot in hell.”

On Friday, as he was sen­tenced to life in prison for the bru­tal murder of Steven Ring, Chris­topher Judge (42) was told by grief-stricken Linda Ring that her fam­ily “will never for­give” him.