Government will want to avoid the budget bloopers of the past

There will be no ‘show time’ on Budget Day, Taoiseach Enda Kenny told a dinner gathering of business folk.

Really? I doubt it. ‘Show time’ walks hand in hand with ‘Election Day.’ This is one couple that cannot easily be separated.

When you have a date with the voters, it is time to pull fat rabbits out of big hats and the time to do it is on Budget Day. This is when our Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, gets to go to the Prom.