(Updates with confirmation of sale; changes source to NTMA, adds quote)
DUBLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Ireland raised 3.5 billion euros from the sale of a new 20-year bond on Thursday, the country’s debt agency said, in the latest long-dated issuance from a euro zone sovereign.
That is slightly higher than the 2 billion to 3 billion euro target a source indicated to Reuters on Wednesday, with the deal receiving final investor demand of more than 35 billion euros.
The funds were raised at a yield of 0.585%, the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) said in a statement.
Ireland has now raised 10.5 billion euros in 2021, more than half of which came via its first syndicated sale of the year, a 10-year deal investors piled into in January when the order book was in excess of 40 billion euros.