Farewell to the Troika - Concerns still need to be addressed

Just as we breathed a sigh of relief two years ago to see Queen Elizabeth safely leave our shores, the exit of Ireland’s economic babysitters will bring a certain amount of contentment to those charged with managing our economic crisis.

Officials from the Troika made their twelfth and final visit to Dublin yesterday ahead of Ireland’s exit from the EU/IMF bailout programme in December.

Ireland will become the first eurozone country to exit the programme, a remarkable achievement by any standards and one for which Finance Minister Michael Noonan can take a certain amount of credit.