11/12 The Front Pages

Across all the papers, whether tabloid and grown-up, there’s just the one story that’s writ large, and that story relates to Gerry Ryan.

After an inquest found that there was cocaine in his system on the day he died and that this had likely contributed to his death, the papers had an excuse to relegate the economic crisis to second place in the story hierarchy and metaphorically dig up the late great broadcaster.

“Gerry’s secret hell” announces the Irish Independent , referring to reports that he was receiving aggressive texts and that he was in financial difficulties at the time of his death.

“Broadcaster Gerry Ryan died of heart failure after using cocaine” says The Irish Times.

“Gerry’s struggle” says the Irish Examiner.

While the Indo only carries the story of the Ryan inquest on its front page, both the Examiner and The Times feature the news that the IMF are to delay providing their portion of the bailout (€22.5billion) until next week’s Dáil vote on the rescue deal.