What the papers say

Journalist Malachi O'Doherty takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning newspapers.

An extraordinary story is on the front of the Irish Times.

Six people in the last eight days have jumped into the River Slaney in County Wexford.

Searches continue for the bodies of two men and a woman. Two other bodies were recovered and one man was rescued.

There is one person on nearly all front pages, and that's Halle Berry, shining like a comet, according to the Daily Telegraph.

She is pictured arriving at the premier of the new Bond movie, Die Another Day.

She's on the front of the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror, the Express and the Independent, in what looks like a silk or satin off the shoulder number.

She shares the front of the Mirror with Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein administrator described during a bail hearing in the High Court in Belfast on Monday as a "member of the IRA's intelligence unit".

Oil tanker disaster

The Independent leads with the battle to stave off the world's biggest environmental disaster.

It says that rescue craft from across Europe were racing to the stricken oil tanker, Prestige, off the Portuguese coast.

The Mail and the Express are worried about security.

The Mail leads with a report on a young Arab who made a mockery of British security by arriving with false papers on Eurostar, walked onto the runway at Stanstead, climbed into the cockpit of an unlocked airliner and vandalised it.

The Express headline tells us that there is a suicide bomb gang in England and quotes a senior police officer saying: "It is a case of when there will be an attack, not if."

The front page lead in the Guardian is that Hans Blix, the head of the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq, has accused hawks in Washington of briefing against him.

And the Times puts the Queen on page one arriving at the Bond Premier.

In the Northern Ireland papers, it is not Halle Berry or the Queen on the front pages but Tammy Lea Menagh, the nine-year-old girl who was in her grandfather's car when it was stolen from a petrol station in Belfast.

The thief ordered her out of the car and she was found distressed but unharmed.

The lead stories are the bail application of Denis Donaldson in the News Letter and the dropping of James Nesbitt from a Belfast city centre shopping campaign in the Irish News.