
(CNN) -- Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will recommend that the country apply for international funding to stay afloat, he said Sunday, reversing days of Irish insistence that Dublin does not need help.The aid package would involve "tens of billions" of euros, he told Irish state broadcaster RTE.He made the comments shortly before the government meets to finalize a deficit-slashing budget.Dublin had insisted for more than a week that it doesn't need money from abroad to stay afloat despite the crisis, but the European Union and International Monetary Fund began discussing a possible bailout days ago.Fears that Ireland will be swamped...