4/12 Tales from the Tabs

Mary Byrne and Jedward dominate the tabloids this Saturday.

“Jedward’s €1M deal” heralds The Irish Sun. The Brothers Grimes have gone and landed themselves a deal to front an ad campaign for moneysupermarket.com which involves them jetting off for filming in South Africa and pocketing €1M.

It goes to prove that they’re not just talentless muppets, they’re rich talented muppets.

The two flew in to Shannon on Friday and were driven across the country to perform for free at the Childline concert in Dublin – so make that charitable talentless muppets.

Meanwhile, “MaBy battles illness”, the Sun says. By battles illness they mean she’s got a sore throat. And over on the Irish Daily Mirror we’ve got “Don’t let her Byrne” accompanied by the most bleedin’ obvious call to action in the history of newspapers – “vote for Mary or she’ll be booted OUT”.

Away from the world of showbiz, the star leads with the story of brutal thug Derek Finley who denies murdering a mum-of-three but admits to giving her, in his words, a “merciless boot in the stomach”.