Here's an infographic created by my good friend Oliver, trying to put some context on the cost of the bailout for Ireland - €45 billion.

Numbers like this make little sense without context, so this tries to make some sense of the comparative scale.

As usual Wikipedia has an excellent summary of the Irish financial crisis and bailout.

I'm not sure the above gives the best possible context though. If you've got better comparison figures, drop them in the comments below?