PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - April 29

Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:27am EDT

DUBLIN, April 29 (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

- Confirmed cases of the potentially fatal swine flu virus continue to rise in a number of countries but last night it was confirmed that tests for the virus on four Irish people who recently returned from overseas have proved negative.

- The Minister for Finance has said he is considering setting up the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) on "a non-statutory interim basis" so it can carry out "initial scoping work".



IRISH INDEPENDENT

- The Government last night finally confirmed that two Dublin by-elections will be held on the same day as the local and European elections.

- Almost a third of loss-making Irish Nationwide's 8.1 billion euros ($10.69 billion) commercial property loan book is classified either as impaired or in intensive care, according to the society's 2008 annual report.

IRISH EXAMINER

- The country's swine flu contingency plan cannot be fully implemented because there are no emergency on-call specialists to respond to an outbreak.

- The lightening strike by Dublin bus drivers came to an end yesterday after a morning of commuter chaos and reports of intimidation of some workers.



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