The Irish PM has been in talks yesterday with Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to try and clear up the fall-out after her Friday’s comments from the EU summit that relief for Ireland’s ‘legacy ‘bank debt was being ruled out..

Enda Kenny’s off to Paris this morning…

(On Friday in Brussels, Angela Merkel dismissed “retrospective recapitalisation” of banks, saying such a move would only be possible for future debts, under an EU banking regulatory regime).

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