Newsround: what Wednesday's papers say

The top stories in Wednesday's newspapers:

THE IRISH TIMES

- Air, sea and shore searches are due to continue today for the three crew missing from the Irish Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter that crashed off the north Mayo coast early yesterday morning, the paper reports.

- Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has expressed his confidence in Nama and its senior executives in spite of the many adverse findings against the agency in the Public Accounts Committee's report on the sale of Project Eagle loans in 2014.

- The board of Bus Éireann will meet this morning to decide on its future strategy following the collapse of talks aimed at finding a resolution to the company's financial crisis.

- In its business section, the paper reports that shares in Ardagh Group are set to debut on the New York Stock Exchange today after the glass and metal container maker priced its $307.8 million initial public offering at the upper end of a previously-indicated range.

FINANCIAL TIMES

- Charlotte Hogg, the Bank of England's new deputy governor, has resigned after MPs questioned her professional competence, dealing a blow to governor Mark Carney's effort to strengthen gender equality in the bank's top ranks.

- The FT's front page also carries a report on Unilever's call for the UK government to take steps to safeguard national corporate champions. The company questioned the strength of the country's takeover code after Kraft Heinz's $143 billion bid for the consumer goods group last month.

- Dutch populism is on the march as the country's love affair with the EU cools, the paper reports, ahead of the Dutch national elections which take place today. It says the country is unlikely to leave the bloc but anti-Brussels rhetoric is hardening.

- It also reports that Ireland has complained about Luxembourg's conduct in the race to lure post-Brexit business from the City of London in a sign of the intense competition among European financial centres.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- The paper also leads with the helicopter crash off the west coast, reporting that naval service divers will use side-scan sonar as they attempt to locate wreckage to help solve the mystery of the downed Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116.

- It also reports that workers were left shocked as make-up giant Coty, which produces the Max Factor range, announced plans to close its Nenagh plant in Co Tipperary because of high costs.

- Postmasters are to resist plans by An Post to shut hundreds of post offices around the country as they called on all political parties to fulfil their elections promises to keep the network open at a rally outside the GPO.

- Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has said measures to slash income tax in October's budget will help stave off an exodus of staff from the country's health service as he became the latest Cabinet member to call for a reduction in our "very high marginal rates of income tax".

IRISH EXAMINER

- As well as reporting on the helicopter crash, the paper's front page says Finance Minister Michael Noonan is under pressure to explain why he met with US vulture fund officials over Project Eagle, a €1.6 billion state property sale which a report says was "seriously deficient".

- The state's equality watchdog has said a landmark EU court ruling regarding Islamic headscarves did not mean blanket bans by employers on wearing religious signs were lawful.

- Taoiseach Enda Kenny has defended his decision to meet US president Donald Trump tomorrow, saying that EU leaders have a "responsibility" to educate the new US administration on the value of working with the EU.

- The paper reports that Education Minister Richard Bruton has indicated that he intends to run for the Fine Gael leadership, claiming he has an "ambition" to shape the future of the party.