What the papers say

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

The west Belfast man being held by Israeli security services makes the lead story in the Irish News and the News Letter and Mirror.

All report that the arrest of Sean O Muireagain, or John Morgan, appears to centre on mistaken identity.

They also report that the man has no paramilitary record.

The Daily Telegraph coverage of the arrest of John Morgan suggests that the blunder may have originated with the British who, according to the paper, gave his name to the Israeli authorities and demanded that he be arrested.

The paper quotes Israeli sources expressing their own doubts about whether the man they are holding - and refuse to name - is a terrorist, given that he has no record, was travelling on his own passport and is co-operating with his interrogators.

The worry over the arrest of John Morgan makes the joint lead in the Mirror with an update on George Best, pictured lounging in the sun and looking fit.

Inside, the paper says George had that "morning after the week before feeling".

'Recovering alcoholic'

It's a fair bet that Best will be avoiding the papers, with his personal problems and his alcoholism being analysed almost everywhere.

The Guardian supplement has recovering alcoholic Phil Robinson explain that he knows how George Feels.

Murder features largely in the Irish Times . The paper leads with details of a report calling for changes in the way in which rape and murder cases are handled in the courts.

The raw personal detail of a murder trial appears inside with the conviction of Kealon Herron for the murder of Sister Philomena Lyons two years ago in Ballybay, Castleblayney, when he was only 19, hung over and apparently stalking a younger woman.

There is a wide range of stories competing for attention on the front of the London broadsheets.

The Guardian runs with a report that Britain has given up on the fight to bring home two British business men from Guantanamo Bay, where they are waiting to face a military tribunal with powers to have them executed.

The US won't let the men go because there is no provision in British law to insure that they will be prosecuted here.

The blunders reported on Monday in the inquiry into the serial killer Harold Shipman make the lead in the Daily Telegraph.

Baby survivors

The Independent runs high with reports that Jack Straw is accused of misleading the public with evidence of Iraqi nuclear plans, which he did not disclose were 12 years out of date.

The Guardian asks how come babies are able to survive accidents that kill adults.

This follows baby Mohammed al Fatih being the sole survivor of last week's Sudan airways crash that killed 100 fellow passengers.

The paper lists other cases - the baby who fell three storeys in Florida, unscathed onto a lawn, and wee Jasper, the French baby who survived a 300 ft fall down a mine shaft.

Stephen Glover in the Mail wonders why Cherie Blair is looking for a PR guru, given that her husband the prime minister, who has lived by spin, appears now to be dying by spin.

The paper also marvels at the amount of hard news that Terry Wallis has to take in now that he has come out of a 19 year coma - that his wife has had three children by another man and that the daughter he doted on is now a stripper.

Enough to make you want to go back to sleep.