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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - April 24

24 Apr 2007 07:54:26 GMT
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DUBLIN, April 24 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy:

THE IRISH TIMES

- A Garda investigation was under way last night into the deaths of a young couple and their two daughters whose bodies were found three days after concerns were expressed for their safety.

- Face-to-face talks between health service employers and nursing unions aimed at trying to resolve the dispute over nurses' pay and conditions will begin this afternoon.

- This week's Dail agenda has fuelled speculation that the Taoiseach will call a general election in a matter of days. All of the legislation due for debate this week is far advanced and will have passed its final stages by Thursday evening.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- Sinn Fein nominated a former IRA female prisoner yesterday as one of the party's three candidates to the North's policing board. The party also made it clear it would now "support and encourage" those who wished to join the PSNI.

- Warm sunshine and hardly a drop of rain means Ireland is heading for one of its hottest Aprils since records began.

- Aer Lingus has signed a cost-cutting deal with the 80 U.S. based workers that Michael O'Leary pledged to sack if he succeeded in taking over the national carrier.

IRISH EXAMINER

- Sinn Fein TD Martin Ferris admitted he drank "two pints" and a glass of wine before getting into his car in the village of Ardfert to drive roughly one-third of a mile to his home.

- Exposure of a teacher's buttock has resulted in a teenage schoolboy bringing a High Court challenge to his expulsion from his school over an incident during a school charity football match.

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