Journalist Sinead Maguire takes a look at what is making the headlines in Friday's morning newspapers.
All the local papers carry the dramatic story of the Riverdance ferry which was caught up in a storm in the Irish Sea on Thursday night.
The Belfast Telegraph says the conditions were treacherous as the Riverdance was hit by freak seven-metre waves on its way from Warrenpoint to Heysham.
The Newsletter tells how the crisis began about eight miles off Fleetwood with the crew battling to keep the boat afloat.
The Irish News reports that "top schools may face a limit on the number of poor children they can admit to prevent a post code lottery when the 11-plus goes".
The paper comments that critics of Education Minister Caitriona Ruane's decision to scrap the transfer test say she will "create a situation where children win places closest to their home".
To the Dublin papers and the Irish Times headlines: "Leading churchmen disagree on sex abuse inquiry."
The paper says that a major disagreement has emerged between the archbishop of Dublin and his predecessor over how to deal with the government's inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin.
The Irish Independent comments that "the Catholic hierarchy has now been plunged into crisis after Archbishop Connell secured a temporary injunction preventing a state inquiry from examining files relating to his handling of complaints against paedophile priests".
In the London papers, the Times headlines "The great tax crash", this comes after the Revenue was forced to give people an extra 24 hours to complete their self assessment tax returns online because the system crashed.
"This", the paper comments, "has thrown into disarray Gordon Brown's plans to make taxpayers file their tax returns online within four years."
Politicians and IT experts now ask how the government "could fail to run the system efficiently at a crucial period of the financial year".
In the Daily Telegraph, Matthew Elliot, the head of the Taxpayers' Alliance said "this would be laughable if it wasn't so serious".
Gout
And the Daily Telegraph says that fruit juice is "more likely to cause gout than alcohol".
The paper goes on to comment that "drinking too many sugary soft drinks and fruit juices can substantially increase the risk of gout", this is indicated in a report published on Friday.
Researchers found that "the risk of developing gout was 85% higher among men who drank two or more cans of soft drinks a day, this is greater than the risk associated with drinking spirits".
The papers also report on David Beckham being dumped from the England team.
The Daily Express says that last night the star, left out of the sell-out game at Wembley because of his supposed lack of match fitness, struggled to hide his disappointment, and this of course leaves him stranded on 99 caps.
The Guardian comments that Beckham now seems destined to end his professional career with a "most unwanted number after his name".
However, the Daily Express goes on to outline that Fabio Capello, the new England manager, is "here to win football matches, not popularity contests" and for that reason there is no room for sentiment or nostalgia.
He's not the only celebrity making the news, as a rather dazed and confused looking Britney Spears is pictured on the front of the Mirror after she was taken to hospital in a massive police operation.
According to the paper the police spent days plotting the move amid fears the star who had not slept since Saturday, might kill herself.
The singer, who is just 26, was driven off in an ambulance with a massive police escort of a dozen motorbikes, two cars and two helicopters.
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