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Ireland: International Bailout Exit

December 11, 2013

After three years.Ireland is set to leave the EU-IMF bailout later this month. The country is widely seen as having made signicantly better financial progress than Greece and Portugal, but it's only just emerging from recession. Is it really out of the woods?

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Brian McKeon runs a construction company and believes the Irish economy is getting back on its feet. But not everyone agrees. Matthew Baston is a trained teacher in his early 20s. He's unemployed and opting to leave the country and start a new life in Australia. His sister is already there. There is growing concern in Ireland about the exodus of young people.