As Cyprus teeters, Ireland says it has shown "medicine" works

SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) - Ireland's expected exit from a European bailout programme later this year should be a morale boost to other euro zone countries in crisis, its European affairs minister said on Saturday. Speaking as politicians in Cyprus scrambled to meet a Monday deadline to secure a 10 billion euro (8.5 billion pounds) bailout and avert financial meltdown, Europe Minister Lucinda Creighton said Ireland's "tough medicine" had worked. ...