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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Jan 16
16 Jan 2008 07:53:35 GMT
 Source: Reuters
DUBLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy:

THE IRISH TIMES

- The government has rejected an opposition call for an early and limited referendum on children's rights following the collapse of the C case yesterday.

- The crisis in Zimbabwe, which left the country's capital Harare without water yesterday, dominated talks yesterday between Bertie Ahern and South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki.

- As controversy over the Taoiseach's tax affairs continued yesterday, the leaders of the two junior coalition parties expressed their full support for the Mahon tribunal while the opposition claimed the government parties were now divided on the issue.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- A jury will decide whether a psychiatrist who drowned her daughter in the bath was insane at the time she "planned" that both of them would die.

- Over 3.2 billion euros ($4.75 billion) was wiped off the value of Irish shares yesterday after banking giant Citigroup <C.N> posted a multi-billion quarterly loss.

- Property developer Liam Carroll is understood to have been the mystery buyer behind the bulk of share buying in McInerney <MCI.I> amid a flurry of market activity in the housebuilder last week.

IRISH EXAMINER

- The national office charged with tackling suicide must do so without additional funding this year, prompting a furious reaction from suicide prevention groups.

- Ireland is on course to renege on its greenhouse gas obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, according to emissions figures released yesterday.

- Reox holdings is close to a deal with Kerry Group <KYGa.I>, worth in the region of 170 million euros, for the sale of its Irish-based consumer foods division, run by its Breeo Foods subsidiary.

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