爱尔兰的复苏

Now it's an important moment in the psychology of Europe's single currency zone. For the past three years, Ireland has relied on an emergency funding from international creditors including European Union, to stay afloat and navigate its way out of its debt crisis. Those emergency financial lifelines came with stringent conditions and Irish salaries and jobs had to be slashed to meet them. But after this weekend, Ireland wants to stand on its own financial feet again. Dublin's saying no thanks to any further emergency loans from the EU. It'll head back to international financial markets alone, the first of the bailed-out eurozone countries to do so. But is it really ready? Earlier, I spoke to the BBC's Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym who travelled to Dublin.

I'm standing right in the centre of Dublin, just along from Trinity College and the Central Bank. And people are very much going about their normal businesses as no sense of celebration. I think people are pretty aware that this is one very important milestone which Ireland is passing, coming out of the bail-out programme but there are still many challenges ahead. And obviously, a few years of austerity have left people feeling very much out-of-pocket and some feel they've suffered at the hands of international lenders. So that's not a great deal to celebrate, but certainly a feeling of relief here.

And what's the government been saying then?

The government's certainly not in the celebratory mood. It knows that the battle is far from over. It is now having to confront a future with debt which still has to be brought down. It still needs to see economic growth picking up. So there's no attempt by the government, if you like, to get people celebrating out there on the streets.