What the papers say: Thursday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Thursday.

An Garda Síochána’s intelligence section paid substantial sums of money to an Israeli spyware company with a history of doing business with repressive regimes, The Irish Times reports.

The Irish Examiner leads with Tánaiste Simon Harris expressing fears that Ireland will wake up one morning and “something will have gone wrong”, describing toxicity in public discourse as “off the Richter scale".

The principal of a Cork special school has said it is "heartbreaking" that new rules around procurement and health and safety mean his students will no longer have a hot lunch every day, according to The Echo.

An image from the tragic Lisbon funicular crash which killed at least 15 people dominates the front page of the Irish Independent.

None of Ireland's 31 councils have issued a nomination for presidential hopeful Conor McGregor, despite him claiming he had their support, the Irish Daily Mirror reports.

None of Ireland's 31 councils have issued a nomination for presidential hopeful Conor McGregor, despite him claiming he had their support,

The Irish Daily Mail reports that gardaí are preparing to travel abroad to interview the father of a young boy who is missing and presumed dead.

A Dublin man allegedly produced a knife during the course of a fight outside a school and seriously assaulted another man, The Herald reports.