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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Oct 12
12 Oct 2007 07:01:54 GMT
Source: Reuters
DUBLIN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy:

THE IRISH TIMES

- With the prospect of mass suspensions of pilots on Monday and Tuesday next, the Labour Relations Commission is expected to invite Aer Lingus management and the pilots to talks over the weekend.

- Microsoft Ireland has been granted planning permission for what would be one of the largest data centres in Europe, at Grange Castle in Dublin, although the project has yet to be approved by Microsoft's corporate headquarters.

- U.S. entertainment giant Live Nation will manage the four Dublin entertainment venues owned by property developer Harry Crosbie when they are opened to the public.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- Tears flowed as schoolfriends of murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo remembered her last night. Many young women clung to each other and sobbed as they lit candles at a Galway city church.

- Almost a third of rivers supplying drinking water to hundreds of thousands of families nationwide are polluted, a damning Environmental Protection Agency report reveals today.

IRISH EXAMINER

- Gardai are today expected to confirm a murder investigation after the discovery of a body in a farm shed's slurry tank.

- The Irish part of a funeral for U.S. soldier Ciara Durkin, killed in Afghanistan two weeks ago, will take place on Saturday in her native Galway.

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