For this week's Sunday Paper Review, Shane was joined by Fergus Finley of Barnardos and Sheila Reilly, editor of the Longford Leader.

There was one story that dominated Irish news this week: the balcony collapse in Berkeley that saw six young people lose their lives. It remains the most prominent story across the Sunday papers today.

"They really are entitled to mourn in dignity and in private... and they'll have a lot of mourning to do," Fergus observed as the families return to Ireland this morning with the bodies of their loved ones. "As a parent of several daughters who have been on J1s, the thoughts that came flooding into my head when I heard about it were 'how do you cope?'"

Reflecting on the J1 experience generally, he said "it was the summer when your life changed, you were opened up to the rest of the world... and that's what these kids were looking forward to."

Speaking about the difficulty of covering such a story, Sheila said she cannot understand how some of the images this week "got past any kind of supervisory capacity". However the panel also praised much of the sensitive and 'thoughtful' writing that appears in today's papers.

They also discussed the 'sloppy' and 'substandard' New York Times article that caused a lot of controversy earlier this week. "I couldn't believe it when I read it, before the furore kicked off... Afterwards the fireworks were a bit much but they probably did reflect how much the story had hit with people here," Sheila said.

Other stories covered in the papers include the continued coverage of the closure and liquidation of Clerys in Dublin, and the latest opinion poll in the Sunday Times.

Fergus observed, "what has been intriguing about the last few opinion polls... has been the absolute lack of impact of the new offerings that are emerging. They're not even registering as measurable".

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