Journalist Keith Baker takes a look at what is making the headlines in Monday's morning papers.
The News Letter gives its main headlines to a serious injury sustained by a soldier from Northern Ireland in Afghanistan.
Ranger Andy Allen, who is 19 and comes from Belfast, lost a leg in an explosion.
The attack happened last week and he is now in military hospital in Birmingham where his mother and fiancee are at his side.
The paper says this "is the most serious injury sustained by an Ulster soldier since the Royal Irish Regiment were deployed to Helmand province earlier this year".
The Irish News has a special wrap-around front page featuring pictures of the Ulster Senior Football Final at Clones on Sunday. "Fermanagh Erne a second chance," says the headline.
The paper's main story is the death of Sarah Conlon which brings back memories of the Guildford Four case.
There are several background features and leader comment.
'Quiet dignity'
"Mrs Conlon won admiration for her quiet dignity and refusal to feel bitterness, despite her family being ripped apart by one of the most high-profile miscarriages of justice," says the paper.
Iris Robinson makes the main headlines in the Belfast Telegraph. It says she is facing her biggest controversy yet, after comments she made during a Commons debate on the assessment and management of sex offenders.
She told her fellow MPs: "There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing young children."
Mrs Robinson tells the paper she is not hate-mongering, but she is speaking out of love and cannot leave her Christian values at the door when she goes into politics.
David Healy features on several front pages - amid a controversy about playing an imaginary flute when his team, Fulham, met Celtic in a friendly.
There are pictures of this particular bit of mime to go with it.
"Healy does a Gazza," says the Sun, reminding us of how Paul Gascoigne did something similar when playing for Rangers.
"Healy own goal" is how the Mirror sees it.
Several papers carry the response of the footballer's agent, Stephen Hughes. The News Letter highlights this.
He says he was "merely responding in kind" after he was targeted by Celtic supporters who spotted that he was wearing boots with a Northern Ireland flag on the heel.
Apparently they were chanting: "Where were you on the Twelfth?"
Among the cross-channel papers, the Independent highlights a report by a House of Lords committee warning that not enough is being done to prevent another flu pandemic.
The paper says the peers do not place much faith in the World Health Organisation which they describe as dysfunctional.
Health warning
Another health story in the Express warns about statins which are used by more than 4m people in the UK to help lower cholesterol.
The paper lists some apparently common side effects, such as depression, sleep disturbance and sexual problems.
One doctor comments that GPs are handing these drugs out "like grass seed".
The Dublin papers look ahead to the visit of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Irish Times features a piece written by Taoiseach Brian Cowen, calling for patience and understanding from Ireland's EU partners in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty defeat.
The Irish Independent says Mr Cowen will be blunt with Mr Sarkozy, telling him to stop interfering in Irish politics by pressing for a second referendum.
There are plenty of pictures on the Dublin front pages and elsewhere of a jubilant Padraig Harrington and his family.
The headlines spell out the scale of his achievement.
'Harri Putter'
"He's the Special One," says the Mail. "History man Harrington," says the Independent. The Mirror gives us: "Harri Putter, the sequel."
Actually, I was watching the golf on Sunday on the ferry from Stranraer.
There were subtitles for the commentary which kept calling him Baldrick Harrington. So if he had a cunning plan, it certainly worked out all right this time.
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