Noonan confident ESM will take on huge portion of Irish bank debt - report

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said no rules were broken in the deal on the Anglo promissory note, and that it any case it was too late now to undo the deal.

Mr Noonan told Bloomberg that the "ship has left the port" in relation to any undoing of the late-night liquidation of the IBRC on Wednesday February 7.