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
When the Government increased the cost of a packet of cigarettes in the budget by 50c yesterday, smoker’s lobby group Forest denounced it as a “massive own goal” by the Government. Spokesman John Mallon said: “Ireland is already the most expensive country in Europe to buy tobacco. Thanks to Paschal Donohoe, more smokers will buy […]
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 […]
There isn’t a lot to say about this budget in terms of income taxes, which at the end of the day is all that most normal people really care about. You should feel sorry for the poor guys over at the Irish Times and the Irish Independent who have to write six-page budget supplements for […]