WATCH: Peadar Tóibín warns that Ireland is on dangerous economic ground, with debt of €230bn and an over-reliance on foreign corporations not helped by Budget 2020. See full interview: https://buff.ly/35nl9LC
Leader of Aontú, Peadar Tóibín, has said that yesterday’s Budget introduced by Minister Paschal Donohue has done little to address the chasm developing between rural Ireland and Dublin. “We are now at crisis point as a nation,” the Meath West TD said. “Ireland is divided between an over-heating and fractured capital and sprawling commuter belt […]
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