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Irish PM says will announce election date on Wednesday


    DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he will ask the country's president to dissolve parliament on Wednesday and name a date for parliamentary elections.

    "I have told the cabinet that I will proceed to Aras an Uachtarain (the president's residence) tomorrow to ask for a dissolution of the Dail (parliament) and announce polling day," Kenny told his local radio station, Mayo-based Midwest Radio.

    Kenny is expected to call the election for Feb. 26, a government source told Reuters.

    (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Alison Williams)