What the papers say: Sunday's front pages
A winning start in the Six Nations for Ireland, the latest political polls and the Regency shooting make the Sunday front pages this bank holiday weekend.
The Sunday Independent's headline reads: 'Higgins warns on 'sowing hate' over refugees', adding the 56 per cent of people believe Ireland has taken in "too many refugees in the past year", according to and Ireland Thinks survey.
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President condemns those 'sowing hate' over refugees, as 56% in poll say Ireland has taken in too many
- Greens block Harris over facial recognition
- Unrest at Dublin's most exclusive tennis club as top managers sacked
- Ireland beat Wales, full coverage pic.twitter.com/pqqUmUxQlb— Alan English (@AlanEnglish9) February 4, 2023
The Business Post reports on delays to a law to ban penalties by insurance providers, alongside an image of Mary Lou McDonald and Eamon Ryan, questioning whether Sinn Féin and the Green Party could form a government.
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🗞️ Google workers turn to union pic.twitter.com/J1rwkiv1dK— Business Post (@businessposthq) February 5, 2023
The Irish Sun on Sunday meanwhile leads with a story from the UK, quoting the woman who claims she took Prince Harry's virginity.
The paper also reads: 'Regency: Seven years on', covering comments made during the trial of Gerard 'the Monk' Hutch at the Special Criminal Court.
Today's Irish Sun. pic.twitter.com/rgSILaXFuw
— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) February 5, 2023
In Britain, te Sunday papers carry comments from former British prime minister Liz Truss on her dramatic downfall in politics, while there is also an interview with the woman over her claims regarding Prince Harry.
The Sunday Telegraph has the first detailed comments from Ms Truss since she was forced from No 10, with the ex Tory leader saying her party and a “powerful economic establishment” never gave her a “realistic chance” to implement her radical tax-cutting agenda.
📰 The front page of tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph:
'Truss: I was brought down by the Left-wing economic establishment'#TomorrowsPapersToday
Sign up for the Front Page newsletter 👇https://t.co/x8AV4Oomry pic.twitter.com/eBeWA7bUtB— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 4, 2023
The Mail on Sunday and The Sun on Sunday have interviews with Sasha Walpole who claims she is the woman with whom Harry lost his virginity, with the latter saying she described the episode as “literally wham-bam between two friends”.
On tomorrow's front page: A Former Highgrove groom has revealed she is the older woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity in a field behind a busy pub.https://t.co/7SN8pxlOgx pic.twitter.com/mbNz8VYxKy
— The Sun (@TheSun) February 4, 2023
The Sunday Mirror reports that a Conservative MP’s housekeeper claimed she was treated like a slave, suffered insults, was reduced to tears and had to take legal action against the politician’s wife to get paid.
Sunday's Front Page 📰
🟥 My hell as Tory MP's slave#TomorrowsPaperToday pic.twitter.com/MteGpROl26— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) February 4, 2023
Doctors have warned that a decision to drop a long-term cancer strategy could mean thousands of lives are at risk, according to the Sunday Express.
Front page - 'Lives at risk' after cancer plan is ditched#TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/9QDptOoh0E pic.twitter.com/xJtYJj4N1N
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) February 4, 2023
The Sunday Times states that British prime minister Rishi Sunak is prepared to take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights over his plans to tackle illegal immigration.
SUNDAY TIMES: @RishiSunak ‘s threat to pull UK out of the ECHR #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/JqM8gr0pVu
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) February 4, 2023
The Daily Star Sunday reports that police had to attend the scene as a mob gathered outside the bail hostel where freed pop paedophile Gary Glitter is staying.
Sunday's front page - 'GLITTER BRAWL'https://t.co/YtsPD2lCui pic.twitter.com/Bkilzszd50
— Daily Star (@dailystar) February 4, 2023
And The Independent carries “shocking accounts” by Home Office staff and private contractors of asylum seekers being handcuffed and restrained after self-harming while being held at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent.
INDEPENDENT: Eyewitnesses reveal violence and self harm in chaotic asylum system #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/ozjAUfpja6
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) February 4, 2023
