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TALKS TO end a legal dispute about a €12m property deal involving Taoiseach Brian Cowen and nearly 70 other Irish investors are close to a settlement.

The investors, including Mr Cowen, bought individual flats in a Leeds apartment block off the plans in 2005 in a deal orchestrated by property developer, Enda Hunston, funded by mortgages taken out on AIB’s Ballsbridge branch.