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Dervil MacDonald with you this weekend.
As always, our panel have been very, very busy picking the best and the rest from this morning's newspapers.
But before I introduce them to you, let's have a quick look at today's headlines.
By election, woe rocks Martin and MacDonald.
That's the lead story for the Sunday Times.
which reports that the leaders of Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin are facing significant internal backlash in the wake of poor results in the Dublin, Central and Galway West by-elections, the latter of which is still underway.
The Sunday Times off-lead focuses on RTE, reporting that Patrick Donovan, the media minister, is prepared to bring forward legislation that will allow RTE to publish the salaries of all of its top 100 earners, not just its presenters.
It comes as Senator and former RT presenter, Ivana Hewlin, has accused RTDG, Kevin Backhurst, of gaslighting the public by claiming the broadcaster is being punished for its transparency.
That story is in the Irish Mail on Sunday, which leads with remarks by Antishek Micheál Martin that he is happy that so many of his Fianna Fáil Cabinet colleagues want to succeed him, following two historically poor showings from the party's candidates in those two by-elections this weekend.
Ireland has unexpectedly emerged as a leading global conduit for critical Taiwanese AI technology as imports of the next generation hardware have surged to unprecedented levels.
That's a splash for the Business Post which says that the fact that Ireland is now playing what it describes as an outsized role in the most sensitive supply chain in the world is being monitored by the Department of Finance and was also raised by IMF officials who visited Ireland during the week.
Rural homes to be eased in bid to lure back emigrants.
That's the main story for the Sunday Independent.
The paper reports that rules restricting one-off homes in rural areas as well as building new one-off houses on existing sites could be relaxed as part of a campaign to entice Irish emigrants home, especially those needed for construction and nursing.
That's a splash for the Irish Sunday Mirror, which reports that hundreds of people gathered at Dublin Airport yesterday to welcome home Irish activists and members of the Freedom Flotilla who were deported from Israel, among them being Dr Margaret Connolly, the sister of President Catherine Connolly.
My favourite headline today is inspired by the off lead in the Sunday World.