At the beginning of March 2011, the Irish Central Bank released the levels of senior and subordinated debt within Irish financial institutions, on a once-off basis. Within these figures are €35.5bn of unguaranteed bonds (€19.1bn of which are secured against bank assets), and €6.9bn of subordinated bonds - whose holders are generally paid higher return in exchange for a greater risk of not being repaid. The Central Bank have stated that these figures were correct as of February 18th 2011.
Source: Irish Central Bank

It is unclear as to why these figures have been released (possibly a political move), or how honest our bankers have been with us in this instance, because their history is not great in that sense, but a major question emerges with these figures; how much help would we require from the ECB/IMF if we did not pay off these private debts for others?