What the papers say: Tuesday's front pages

Eva Osborne

A number of stories feature on the front pages of Irish newspapers on Tuesday, with many leading with Nicolas Maduro pleading not guilty to federal drug-trafficking charges or the stabbing of Donegal businessman Stephen McCahill.

The Irish Times leads with Maduro telling a US judge he had been kidnapped when he and his wife appeared in a federal court in New York yesterday.

Prisoner numbers are on course to reach 6,000 in a matter of months — a level of overcrowding prison sources say is “unimaginable”, as maximum capacity is only 4,700, the Irish Examiner reports.

The Echo also touches on prison overcrowding, leading with Cork Prison reaching a new high of 410 people in custody on Monday, meaning 114 inmates did not have a bed.

Gardaí believe the sus­pect in the fatal stabbing of Donegal busi­ness­man and elec­tion can­did­ate Stephen McCahill (66) may have fled on a quad bike, according to the Irish Independent.

The Irish Daily Mirror also leads with the stabbing of Stephen McCahill, reporting that the suspect had been kicked out of a pub McCahill owns before the killing.

McCahill, the cop­ro­pri­etor of the Corner House pub in Ardara, was killed at his home at 3am after a trad music ses­sion in his pub dur­ing which a man had been ejec­ted, according to the Irish Daily Star.

The Irish Daily Mail reports Donald Trump was last night warned that any attempt to seize Green­land would spell the end of Nato.

The Herald leads with a young boy who suffered life-chan­ging injur­ies in an attack by an XL Bully dog issuing High Court pro­ceed­ings against the own­ers and Tuath Hous­ing.