Small Business Column: Budget 2015

As the dust settles, Kehlan Kirwan looks at Budget 2015, and what it may mean for Irish small businesses

The intention of Budget 2015 was to make sure that most people felt money was staying in their pockets rather than haemorrhaging as a result of further government money gathering. The exercise worked.

Over the ensuing days of review, it became apparent, that for the first time in seven years, people seemed upbeat about what the budget had to bring. and 2015 was going to be a year to extend the belief that Ireland is heading incrementally in the right direction.