What the papers say: Saturday's front pages

Ottoline Spearman

A variety of stories lead the news this Saturday morning.

The Irish Times leads with former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan, who is looking to secure Government backing for the more senior role of leading the food security agency at the UN, which carries a salary of around €224,000 a year. Former president Mary McAleese has also said that some Catholic Church teaching “is rancid, has gone off and needs to be updated”. She added, however, that "it’s not going to be updated by a bunch of, a tiny and increasingly small number of celibate male ordained bishops.”

The Irish Examiner leads with Eamon O'Neill, the retired Limerick Superintendent who was recently acquitted in a road traffic prosecution case brought against him and four serving gardaí, who, together with his wife, is suing the force.

The Irish Independent reports that the consumer watchdog has said there is "no doubt" that cartels are fixing the price of publicly funded projects, in what is known as "bid-rigging".

A nursing home in Cork city will close after more than 20 years, forcing its 37 residents to relocate, reports The Echo.

The latest release of the Epstein files appear to show that Trump performed a sex act with a girl aged 13 or 14, the Irish Daily Mirror reports.

The Irish Daily Star reports on the River Slaney in Enniscorthy bursting its banks, forcing families to relocate for the second time in a week.

A poll has found that nearly three in four people would support a social media ban for under-16s, following Australia's lead, according to the Irish Daily Mail.

And finally, the Belfast Telegraph reports that members of a notorious crime gang who are linked to the unsolved murder of two Co Armagh friends are now suspects in a recent attack on a father-of-three, who subsequently died.