What the papers say: Wednesday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty and British TV star Cat Deeley's separation and the stabbing of a garda in Dublin city centre dominate the headlines of Irish newspapers on Wednesday.

The Irish Times leads with a new report finding that High Court challenges are among the key reasons many large infrastructure projects now take twice as long and cost twice as much as they did 20 years ago.

The Irish Examiner reports on the country's ban on an addictive cannabis substitute which has been commonly sold in vapes or as edibles and which has been linked to serious medical episodes and psychosis in young people.

HSE South West circulated a message on Tuesday cautioning that the emergency department at Cork University Hospital was "currently experiencing very high levels of activity" and asking people not to attend if possible.

A Cork TD questioned how this could be happening in the middle of summer, The Echo reports.

The Irish Independent leads with a row erupting over a Government report saying major state projects are at risk of not being completed due to capacity contraints in the construction sector.

Kielty and Deeley's separation features on the front page of the Irish Daily Mail. The paper also reports on the chair of the Oireachtas Enterprise Committee saying unelected quangos are undermining democracy.

The separation is also centre stage on the front page of the Irish Daily Star, which also reports on the stabbing of a garda in Dublin city centre on Tuesday.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with Kielty and Deeley saying there is no one else invovled in their separation.

A man who procurred an attack on a young woman that resulted in her permanently losing the sight in one eye has been jailed for six years, The Herald reports.