What the papers say

Journalist Malachi O'Doherty takes a look at Tuesday's morning newspapers

It used to be one of the maxims of peace processes that you have to deal with the leadership you are presented with, but George Bush does not see it that way.

The Guardian says the US president has sided with Ariel Sharon's position that there can be no peace as long as chairman Yasser Arafat and his aides lead the Palestinian people.

Nurit and Rami Elhanan lost a daughter to a Palestinian suicide bomb attack and felt compelled to make contact with Palestinian families which had also lost children

The Mirror

The Daily Telegraph fronts the story with an uncomplimentary picture of Mr Bush - a grim frown on his furrowed face as he slouches at the podium.

The paper highlights the elements of the plan: "New leaders for the Palestinians, Israel to withdraw to pre-1967 borders".

A remarkable story in the Mirror recounts the campaign of a Jewish family for a "Free Palestine".

Drug addiction

Nurit and Rami Elhanan lost a daughter to a Palestinian suicide bomb attack and felt compelled to make contact with Palestinian families which had also lost children.

It is the credibility of paramilitaries which is highlighted on both local front pages on Tuesday morning.

In the Irish News, a mother pleads with those who have shot her son 13 times in three separate paramilitary attacks to give him the space to recover from drug addiction.

Barrett did not kill Finucane - that's total fact - he was not the gunman and it's up to others to figure out why he said he was

Senior loyalist

More recently, Steven Fegan from New Barnsley in west Belfast, was shot six times last Thursday.

The story reports also that there were 65 republican gun attacks last year.

The News Letter leads with a claim by a loyalist named in Sunday night's BBC Panorama programme, that the story told about him is "complete lies".

Jim Spence has told the News Letter that Ken Barrett, who described the murder of Pat Finucane to reporter John Ware, had been making it up.

A senior loyalist told the paper: "Barrett did not kill Finucane. That's total fact - he was not the gunman. It's up to others to figure out why he said he was."

The Mirror has the police calling for the return of a lost gun. A powerful .357 calibre Ruger with six live rounds in the chamber fell from an officer's holster in a clash with crowds in Tiger's Bay on Sunday night.