What the papers say: Sunday's front pages
Eva Osborne
Here are the stories making headlines this Sunday.
Gardaí are investigating whether the murder of Annie McCarrick was linked to romance or not, according to the Sunday Independent.
The paper also reports on a minister's driver being banned from driving twice due to alcohol offences.
A relative of Larry Murphy is back on the streets for the first time since being jailed for the horror rape and murder of civil servant Marilyn Rynn in 1995, the Sunday World reports.
The front page of the Irish Mail on Sunday features a piece on patients at a public hospital who were asked to pay cash-for-scans to 'bump' them up non-existent waiting lists so consultants could pocket thousands of euros for private work.
A whistleblower has claimed, in a protected disclosure, that these cash payments were €90 per scan.
The Government’s ‘fiscal incontinence’ has been slammed as spending doubles in a decade, the Business Post reports.
The paper says its analysis reveals there is a €110 billion budget this year, up from €55 billion in 2015.
The ex-partner of Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder suspect Ian Bailey has revealed she is battling an "incurable illness", the Irish Sunday Mirror reports.
Sunday Life leads with Roma families who have fled Northern Ireland to Europe due to the race riots vowing to never return.
