Ireland 'in preliminary talks with EU on bailout'
It is now no longer a matter of whether but when the Irish government formally approaches the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) for a bailout, correspondents say.
The provisional estimate for EFSF loans is believed to lie between 60bn and 80bn euros ($82-110bn; £51-68bn).
Dublin says there are no talks on an application for emergency EU funding.
A spokesman for Ireland's department of finance said the country was funded until the middle of 2011, the public-service RTE broadcaster reported.
RTE had earlier said talks had been held on how a bail-out might happen in a theoretical worst-case scenario.
The European Commission would not formally comment on the matter.
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