NTMA: Ireland 'aiming to return to markets in summer'

Ireland is not on course for a second bailout as plans are under way for a return to the global money markets this year, the country’s top finance and borrowing chiefs have claimed.

In a week where a senior Citigroup economist urged the Government to plan for a rescue rerun, the body managing national debt insisted it was aiming for an opportunistic re-entry in June or July.