What the papers say: Wednesday's front pages

Eva Osborne

Here are the stories making headlines this Wednesday.

Spanish authorities have frozen Gerry Hutch’s property assets in the country as part of an ongoing money-laundering investigation into the gangland figure, according to The Irish Times.

The revelation comes as Hutch refused to detail the extent of his property holdings in advance of the May 22nd Dublin Central byelection, which he said he plans to enter as an Independent candidate.

The Irish Examiner leads with European police being alarmed at the rise of an online network, mainly composed of children, which encourages and coerces juveniles to inflict extreme violence on themselves or other people.

The Echo leads with Government data not recording the full scale of homelessness, according to a University College Cork (UCC) and Cork Simon Community report.

The legal ser­vices watch­dog has cri­ti­cised the prac­tice of soli­cit­ors char­ging hun­dreds of euro for the release of wills stored on their premises, the Irish Independent reports.

Under no cir­cum­stances should the hand­ing over of a will be made con­di­tional on the pay­ment of a so-called “stor­age fee”, the Legal Ser­vices Reg­u­lat­ory Author­ity said.

The Irish Daily Mirror leads with the Irish former right-hand man of Keir Starmer admitting he had made a "serious error of judgment" in advising the British Prime Minister to send Peter Mandelson to Washington.

A bitter feud has erup­ted between the National Lot­tery and Irish book­ies over a call to ban them from tak­ing bets on the draw res­ults — which bosses claim costs them €289 million in lost Lotto sales, according to the Irish Daily Star.

Ukrainians will have to prove they are ‘self­suf­fi­cient’ to be allowed remain in Ire­land and be placed on a path­way to cit­izen­ship, the Irish Daily Mail reports.

The Herald leads with the daughter and daugh­ters-inlaw of a man shot dead in a Dub­lin res­taur­ant over two years ago being charged with facil­it­at­ing a crime gang.

Jade Hen­nessy (33), Kirsty Tra­vers (29), and Kayleigh McEntee (27) have been remanded into cus­tody until Fri­day.