PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Sept 9

DUBLIN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading
stories in Ireland's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not
verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy:

THE IRISH TIMES

- The government has unveiled plans to split Anglo Irish
Bank [ANGIB.UL] into two entities and wind them down or sell
them. However, it has not disclosed the amount of funding or
time periods the move will involve.

- The European Commission is preparing new plans for
pan-European rules on the taxation of business profits, measures
certain to be opposed by the Government.

- Elan (ELN.I) (ELN.N) has notified the US stock market
regulator of "issues" relating to dissident director Jack
Schuler.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- Scandal-hit Anglo Irish Bank has been barred from lending
ever again after creating the majority of the country's toxic
debts.

- The European Central Bank (ECB) was reported to be buying
Irish bonds yesterday as the bank tried to reassure markets that
so-called 'peripheral' economies aren't in danger of defaulting
on their debts.

- Irish soccer's governing body is facing a crisis over the
disastrous sale of premium tickets for the new Aviva Stadium, an
Irish Independent investigation reveals.

IRISH EXAMINER

- Leading children's rights campaigner Fergus Finlay has
written to the Labour Party seeking its nomination to run for
the presidency.

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