A €157 million haul of cocaine seized from a cargo ship dominates all the front pages on Thursday.
The Irish Examiner reports that Colombia’s biggest drug cartel and an Albanian-led European criminal consortium are the top suspects for the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Irish waters.
While the Irish Independent says the Kinahan cartel had a significant investment in the shipment recovered from a cargo vessel off the Cork coast.
The Irish Daily Mirror calls the seizure a "record high", the Irish Daily Star says it's "not to be sniffed at" and The Echo lauds a "huge hit" to organised crime.
In other news, The Irish Times leads with its latest poll showing Sinn Féin extending its lead over its rivals.
The Irish Daily Mail looks at the threat of "Drew flu" among gardaí as the row over working hours in the force continues.
The Belfast Telegraph claims middle-aged people in the North are being left with significantly less protection than their southern counterparts from Covid-19 this winter.
The death of a 15-year-old girl who was stabbed on a bus on the way to school leads the British papers.
The Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Mail report on the girl’s tragic death, with a teenage boy arrested over the incident.
The Metro followed suit, saying the killing was a “revenge attack” while the Daily Mirror draws attention to the “knife crime epidemic” and is urging the UK government to “act now”.
The Daily Telegraph runs with a story on a London police firearms officer who “shot a gangster dead” and now faces being sacked despite being cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
The Times says the British home secretary has been authorised to “float the prospect” of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights as a “warning shot”.
Meanwhile, The Guardian runs with a story on one of the Conservative Party’s biggest donors being under investigation over his “tax affairs”.
The top financial regulator is getting set to launch a “sweeping review” of valuations in private markets, according to the Financial Times.
And the Daily Star says Japanese scientists have invented a way to regrow teeth.
