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Tue 10 Oct 2008Only three departments escape cuts in Lenihan Budget
ANALYSIS:Early in his speech, the Finance Minister Brian Lenihan described the extraordinary events that have rocked the global economy this year and observed that nobody had foreseen the speed with which the global and domestic downturn would gather pace, writes HARRY McGEE, Political Staff.
There was no such sense of unpredictability with Lenihan's first Budget today. From the moment in early September the Government announced it was bringing the Budget forward by two months, the general public has been “softened up” for exactly the kind of a hairshirt package that Lenihan unfurled over the course of 40 minutes on his feet today.
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