DUBLIN, March 26 (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

- A ship carrying more than 2,700 tonnes of equipment, 100 vehicles and enough food and water to sustain 400 people for four months left Dublin port last night for Cameroon, from where it will be transported to landlocked Chad in preparation for the deployment of the main body of Irish troops taking part in an EU mission to the central African country.

- Rev Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church rolls south of the border in search of converts this summer on a new "evangelical bus".

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- The country's financial watchdog yesterday personally phoned top stockbrokers and ordered them to have files ready for inspection by his staff as part of a sweeping crackdown on suspected shares skulduggery.

- Diversified Irish utility group NTR has entered preliminary discussions to forge a partnership with a US company that is planning to spend up to $2 billion to develop two major energy plants in California that could be among the world's largest solar arrays when completed in a few years.

IRISH EXAMINER

- AIB <ALBK.I>'s chief executive Eugene Sheehy saw his pay cut last year after a slippage in pre-tax profits and a fall in the bank's share price.

- Anglo Irish Bank <ANGL.I>, one of the country's top financial institutions, confirmed yesterday it is co-operating fully with the Financial Regulators' investigation into suspect share dealings in the group.

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