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Budgets can be progressive, but it is unlikely that the recession will be, writes VINCENT BROWNE.

THE COMMENT was made by-the-way. “The contraction [ie collapse] of the Irish economy is the worst anywhere since the Great Depression. Well, not anywhere, anywhere among the industrial countries since the Great Depression. You have to allow for countries like Zimbabwe.”