Warning over supporting Lagarde for top IMF job

SUPPORTING French finance minister Christine Lagarde to head up the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would back the country into a corner, it has been warned.

Europe Minister Lucinda Creighton has signalled that the Government may decide to endorse the Parisian for the role after Dominique Strauss-Kahn stood down amid sex assault charges in New York.

However Taoiseach Enda Kenny insisted that the Government has not decided who to back for the vacant post as head of the IMF.