Probe as video shows police officer ‘kicking teen in head’ – The Irish News

The Irish News front page this morning – summarised

The front page of The Irish News reports an investigation is underway over footage showing a cop kicking a restrained teenager in the head. 

1. An investigation is underway over footage which appears to show a police officer kicking a Co Tyrone teenager about the head while he lies restrained on the ground. The short clip shows a uniformed PSNI officer kick Shea Somerville in the head during an arrest operation in Cookstown in the early hours of Sunday.
2. DUP minister Paul Givan has “serious questions to answer over the appointment of his party colleague, former Stormont minister Mervyn Storey, as chair of the Education Authority. The four-year post pays up to 560,000 a year for a minimum of three days a week