05/05 The Front Pages

The Front Pages

Tomorrow the nation will mourn, much-loved RTE radio broadcaster, Gerry Ryan as thousands are expected to turn out for his funeral in Clontarf. All the front pages of this morning’s papers highlight a couple of different angles on Mr Ryan’s death and funeral arrangements.

On The Irish Examiner the story focuses on the decision taken by RTE to broadcast Mr Ryan’s funeral live on 2FM and to provide a live stream via webcam on their 2FM website. The reaction and calling from Gerry’s listeners has influenced the decision by RTE to broadcast from St John the Baptist Church tomorrow.

‘More Tests To Find Out How Gerry Died’ reads the front of The Irish Independent. The circumstances in which Gerry Ryan died have still not come to the public light following a post-mortem yesterday and the Indo says that results of toxicology tests will be revealed in the coming weeks. The body was released to the Ryan family yesterday evening for tomorrow’s funeral “as they prepared for a final, heartbreaking farewell.”

In other top stories, The Irish Times covers the Irish airport debacle following the return of the Icelandic volcanic ash to airspace. Disruptions to Irish airports are expected again today as Dublin and Knock will come to a standstill from 11am. Donegal and Sligo will have restrictions from 8am and 9am respectively whilst Cork, Waterford and Kerry are likely to have disruptions from 2pm. Seemingly, both Shannon and Galway will remain unaffected.