What the papers say: Saturday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Saturday.

The share of new-build homes being sold to private buyers has fallen sharply in the past decade, with only one-third of all new supply now being made available on the open market, according to new research.

Annual home completions countrywide have risen from 20,000 to more than 36,000 in the past six years, The Irish Times reports.

The FAI has been accused of a "cop out" by moving its home men's fixture against Israel to another country, but the sports minister has hit out at "anonymous trolls" putting pressure on players, the Irish Examiner reports.

The Irish Independent leads with some obstet­ri­cians in the Rotunda Hos­pital who can still do private prac­tice “gift­ing” up to €1,500 to col­leagues on pub­lic-only con­tracts who deliver the baby of one of their patients at week­ends.

A woman heard a man say, “sh*t f***ing Irish” before the Par­nell Square knife attack, the Irish Daily Mirror reports.

Patri­cia Byrne told the Dub­lin court she saw a man on Mary Street who in her opin­ion was “being quite aggress­ive in his words”.

A man sus­pec­ted of being a hit­man was found dead inside a car that had been involved in a pileup after its driver attemp­ted a U-turn, according to the Irish Daily Star.

The Israeli Foot­ball Asso­ci­ation has taunted the FAI over its decision to ‘give up home com­fort’ by mov­ing the upcom­ing Nations League fix­ture between the coun­tries out­side of Ire­land to be played behind closed doors, the Irish Daily Mail reports.

The Herald leads with the dis­ap­pear­ance and sus­pec­ted murder of a former Irish soc­cer star’s brother being repor­ted to police in the Mar­bella area of Spain by a female asso­ciate of his on Wed­nes­day.