What the papers say: Saturday's front pages
Tomas Doherty
A wide variety of stories feature across Saturday's newspaper front pages.
The Irish Times reports that the Government is planning a significant expansion of asylum-seeker accommodation at Dublin’s Citywest Hotel as it closes in on a purchase of the facility worth at least €100 million.
Health experts are “gobsmacked” by public indifference to the growth of a synthetic cannabinoid widely available in shops, according to the Irish Examiner.
The Irish Independent reveals that key camogie sponsor AIB is backing players who want to wear shorts.
The Irish Daily Mail speaks to the man who spotted his childhood ab on the Late Late Show and then decided to report him to the gardaí.
The Herald, Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star lead with the funeral of Garda Kevin Flatley, who was killed at a road checkpoint in north Dublin last weekend.
The Irish News reports from Bellaghy, the home town of Sean Brown, a GAA official murdered almost 30 years ago. The Co Derry village came to a standstill on Friday evening as thousands showed their for his family’s call for a public inquiry.
Further fragments of human remains have been found at a site where investigators had carried out a search for Troubles victim Joe Lynskey, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
The Echo has the latest on the emergency accommodation situation in Cork city.
