I tend to agree with the posters who are confused about what to do. Yes, the Irish banks are totally bust, and so it cannot be a bad idea to get money out of them.
On the other hand, the paranoid fixation of the ECB, around the issue of burning bondholders or indeed any form of burden sharing of the current crisis, is founded on their fear of "Lehmans" style collapse of a European bank, which would cause an inevitable run on all the other major European banks.
The bottom line is that the big "safe" European banks, are not adequately capitalised to withstand a major economic "event", such as a default of any Euro zone country. The possibility of such an economic event happening, is not small you know!!!
I reckon cash deposited in several accounts, in several different banks in Ireland, might be as easy to get your hands on in real cash, in the event that the system starts to rumble. By the time you get the plane ticket and get to the bank in Berlin, the qeue of people outside , might be a little long for comfort.
For those who have online accounts, in Europe, some will find the only way to gat hands on the cash, is to transfer it back to an Irish current account, and then gat the cash out. More valuable time lost in a crisis.