Kenny in bid to change bailout

TAOISEACH-in-waiting, Enda Kenny, will take the first steps in attempts to re-negotiate the EU/IMF bailout when he meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel today.

Mr Kenny said he hopes to get a private word with the German leader at the fringes of a European Peoples Party (EPP) meeting in Helsinki.

“I’ll certainly get a few minutes,” he said yesterday ahead of his travels to the Finnish capital where he will press for a reduction in 5.8% interest rate paid on the European share of Ireland’s €85 billion EU/IMF bailout.