Today's Paper Review was book-ended with two animal stories - starting with the horse on the Luas, and finishing with Ivan's sensitive-as-always reminder to Chris of a long lost pet.
Friday morning’s Irish Times has an interview with Michael Noonan in which the finance minister says he wants a review of the first-time mortgage cap rules.
The Irish Examiner splits its front page between the funeral of Thomas Kent and a story on a HSE failure to report alleged sex attack incidents in care homes to gardaí.
The Irish Independent leads with news that the humble Irish spud is set for a €1m makeover.
In the tabloids, the Mail reports on plans for free iPads for the unemployed, the Herald has the story of a woman, who was working for gardaí, caught using fake sick certs.
The Daily Star carries an interview with a HIV positive couple,. Both of whom are drug addicts, who want to have a baby.
Inside the papers Ivan spotted a story in the Daily Star on the most likely professions likely to cheat on their partners, with the more creative types more likely to be unfaithful, with architects topping the list.
He also spotted a story about Oscar the jack Russell who ran away from home three years ago only to b e found 300 kilometres from his Newbridge home – in Cork. Ivan then reminded Chris about his beloved family pet patch, whose disappearance three years ago remains a mystery.
“You leave Patch alone, Patch was a beloved family pet that died and you keep joking about it," a perhaps slightly wounded Chris told Ivan.
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