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Inside Politics: Paschal Donohoe’s budget contains no major political landmines

Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 08:03 Updated: Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 08:05

Harry McGee

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s budget contained no major political landmines. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s budget contained no major political landmines. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Pick your cliche to describe Paschal Donohoe’s first budget. Jam for tomorrow. One for everybody in the audience. No big fireworks. Spreading everything around. All kinds of everything. Balancing the books. An election budget. A giveaway budget. A Fine Gael budget. A Fianna Fail budget.

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