{"id":487496,"date":"2026-05-16T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:38:15","slug":"ireland-repays-e11-5bn-bond-as-outlook-on-global-debt-market-darkens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487496\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland repays \u20ac11.5bn bond as outlook on global debt market darkens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Government will repay \u20ac15bn in total this year and has cash and liquid assets of \u20ac29bn\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Treasury Management Agency headquarters in Dublin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778803272_414_f0e19fa6-e0fc-4c33-b0fe-d243a6d27121.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">National Treasury Management Agency headquarters in Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland repaid an \u20ac11.5bn bond on Friday as it fell due in a move that cuts the national debt but will also run down some of the huge cash surplus sitting in state coffers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The unusually large bond deal is the most substantial element of the national debt falling due this year. Other debt falling due this year included a \u20ac1.3bn \u2018SURE loan\u2019 \u2013 a type of low-cost EU emergency funding issued during the pandemic \u2013 that matured in February. A \u20ac2bn debt dating all the way back to the bailout owed to the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) will be repaid later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government will repay \u20ac15bn in total this year and has cash and liquid assets of \u20ac29bn National Treasury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,10891,179,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-487496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donal-odonovan","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116583590564607369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}