The Newstalk Breakfast presenters opened with a nod to RTÉ's new TV show.

The public service broadcaster is to remake Channel 4's First Dates programme for an Irish audience.

Latest news from Montrose suggests that while 2,000 women have applied, only 500 men have asked to take part.

At a ration of 5:1 Ivan Yates reckoned it should be like shooting fish in a barrel.

He said he has been speaking to a friend in the production company about finding co-presenter Chris Donoghue a spot on the show, but apparently it is not looking good.

On the front pages today...

On The Irish Independent: "Landlords will now be forced to justify rent hikes."

That paper's second story: "Probe into migrant workers at Irish ports". Christ pointed out that there is no minimum wage at sea, as staff at Irish Ferries learnt a number of years ago when they were replaced by foreign staff.

The Irish Times has a lovely autumnal picture on the front, but its lead story is all business: "Central Bank accused of property crash".

The Irish Examiner goes with: "Mortgage rates may be halved under EU loan plan".

Irish borrowers could benefit from efforts to equalise lending across the Eurozone, interest rates might even come down.

The Irish Daily Mirror continues on the theme they have been taking on the Russian plane crash: "Was plane downed by Lockerbie bomb".

The Star goes with: "Crim's son (15) hides out in Spain" about the fatal stabbing of Lorcan O'Reilly at the Oliver Bond Street flats over the Halloween weekend.

The Herald has a picture of a homeless couple in a sleeping bag and a hooded man trying to set them on fire - that scene captured by CCTV cameras in the area.

The Irish Daily Mail: "New crime blitz will not tackle serial burglars - thieves to be jailed for just two years at most", that story in relation to garda Operation Thor.

The Sun asks if Cowell's X-Factor is on its last legs: "X-terminate", but their lead is "Minister's radical plan" on Minister Aodhán Ó'Riordán's plan to stop jailing drug addicts, and offer them safe facilities to use.

Chris was entertained by the story of a woman who got stuck in a shop's walk-in fridge for eight hours last December.

The woman, who worked in the Subway store in Gloucestershire, is now taking her employer to court.

After failed attempts to draw attention to her plight, she was angered by her management's lack of sympathy.

She tweeted after the event: "Got locked in the f***ing fridge overnight for eight hours at work. They didn't ask me if I was ok, they asked me if I could work tonight. P**s take." That story in The Irish Independent.

Ivan was interested in coverage of the Banking Inquiry in The Irish Independent - suggestions there that one or more members of the panel may refuse to sign off on the findings after disagreements, including one over the role of the European Central Bank in our economic collapse..

The Irish Times says one lawyer at the Inquiry earned €25,000 for seven days over the summer.

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