Ireland only out on bail as Kenny exults in bailout exit

AS Ireland blinks at the unfamiliar sunlight of financial freedom after three years banged-up in economic hard labour by the troika, it knows it may have exited the bailout, but is really only out on bail.

Incarcerated against its will in Nov 2010, the freshly released prisoner of Frankfurt must now prove it is a reformed character if it is to survive on the outside of the EU-ECB-IMF strait-jacket.

The troika said they had to throw Ireland into the economic isolation unit for its own protection — and theirs, lest its financial sickness contaminated the rest of the feverish eurozone.