Tomorrow, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan will meet IMF managing director Christine Lagarde in Washington to discuss Ireland's bailout exit. Afterwards, both sides will probably use a similar formula as was used after Noonan's meetings last week with EU Commissioner Olli Rehn and ECB president Mario Draghi – that the talks were ''constructive''.
This gives the idea of quietly competent discussions which will reach a logical conclusion. Of course, the reality is that...
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