The Front Pages
Brian Lenihan will be happy to hear he’s made another front page headline, as today’s Irish Independent reports ‘Lenihan pushes to close Anglo within 10 years’.
According to the Independent, the Finance Minister is to meet with fellow EU ministers in Brussels today for talks on the ongoing financial crisis. The broadsheet believes that Lenihan will today ‘plead’ with the EU to allow the gradual closure of Anglo Irish Bank over 10 years.
The Irish Times looks beyond our shores for its main headline today, ‘Eta ceasefire seen by Spanish government as ‘insufficient’. Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was last night said to be ‘deeply sceptical’ over the Basque separatist’s ceasefire announcement and is expected to make a statement this afternoon.
Adolfo Ares, the Basque regional minister, is another sceptic of the announcement’s authenticity, caiming that the group’s wording meant that the statement was ‘not an unconditional ceasefire.’ Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams welcomed the announcement however, and has urged the Spanish government to quickly seize the opportunity to ensure long-term peace.
