Update: Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has revealed he spoke to AIB chairman Richard Pym on Monday morning to discuss the bank's inclusion in the so-called Paradise Papers,

All commercial property sales signed before midnight on budget day will be liable for the lower 2% stamp duty rate, the Finance Bill has confirmed.

From the perspective of the minister for finance, in particular, and the Government in general, the arrival of Storm Ophelia on Monday very quickly took Budget 2018 off the news agenda, and particularly a couple of its more controversial elements.

The government is facing a big defeat in the Dáil tomorrow night over its failure to address a women’s pension anomaly in Budget 2018.

Donald Trump has said he has heard that Ireland is about to reduce its Corporation Tax rate to 8% from its current 12.5%.

Five members of the Cabinet recount their experience of the process of Budget 2018, writes  Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Michael Ring, the Rural Affairs Minister, is understood to have launched a “ferocious” broadside at Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

There is an old Chinese proverb to the effect that the best way to eat an elephant is in small pieces. This analogy should equally be applied to budgetary policy, writes Jim Power

Update 11.20am: Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said today that he never promised to fix the pension problem for women in the Budget.

Leo Varadkar’s €5m Strategic Communications Unit has been branded a “dangerous development” which was politically driven.

In the aftermath of Budget 2018, it wasn’t the big ticket items in health, housing or social protection that got the Dáil in a tizzy.

The Government has been accused of only adding 31 homes to house building targets for next year.

Dublin's hotels are too expensive - but they should not have to pay higher VAT, the finance minister has insisted.

People have been questioning Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe on his Budget yesterday.

Budget 2018 is going to be greeted with indifference, according to Fianna Fáil who claim the billion euro plan benefited from their influence on Fine Gael.

Hard-working families are set to be up to €600 a year better off on foot of tax breaks and spending increases announced in Budget 2018 by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe

While not an election budget, it could well be Paschal Donohoe’s final budget before we find ourselves at the polls, writes Daniel McConnell

Extra gardaí were on hand but the hordes of Fanta-waving (sugar tax) tangerine-tinted (sun-bed tax) protesters failed to materialise, writes Lise Hand

Full-time student and lone- parent Róisín Smyth, 27, rents a two-bedroom apartment with her two-year-old daughter, having previously lived in emergency accommodation.

There may be collaboration on the budget, but there is deadly political competition between the two big centre parties, writes Gerard Howlin.

Paschal Donohoe’s first budget was a bit like The Late Late Show — something for everyone in the audience, a stand-still patchwork quilt that is prudent and sober but lacking in ambition. It tinkers at the edges but fails to offer an overall vision for the future.

Entrepreneur Erica Sheehan may have her health food product stocked in 300 stores around the country, but she feels yesterday’s budget will have little impact on her company. This is in spite of the State supports she tapped into as a start-up.

The centrepiece of the budget was the unveiling of a hike in commercial property transactions from 2% to 6%. It will raise a lot of money – as much as €376m a year, writes Eamon Quinn

Lisa Kelly’s family is reflective of “middle Ireland”, with two salaries, a mortgage to service, and one child.

Paschal Donohoe is a new breed of finance minister who delivered a speech in his typical style: On-message, handled with care, and shot through with the odd folksy flourish, writes Michael Clifford

Paschal Donohoe stole most of the limelight and was on his feet in the Dail for nearly an hour but here’s some other notable quotes from Budget 2018.

Ireland’s budget has served up some welcome news for low-paid workers, a coffee shop owner on the border has said.

The Minister for Finance has defended his decision to reduce both USC rates and change tax bands so that fewer people will pay the top rate.

Ireland's budget has served up some welcome news for low-paid workers, a coffee shop owner on the border has said.

We took to streets of Cork to see what people thought of today's Budget.

Ireland's working families and people on welfare are set to gain a fiver a week or more in a budget of modest payback.

Business owners along the Irish border have given a mixed reaction to the budget's loan scheme to help small companies weather Brexit.

Pascal Donohoe has admitted he could have done more in today's Budget, but said he wanted to avoid the mistakes of the past.

A new target of helping 3,000 people out of homelessness in 2018 has been set by the Housing Minister.

A lone parent who beat Ireland's mounting homelessness crisis and launched her university education has claimed the Government is still ignoring the problem.

Young Fine Gael have only offered a qualified welcome to the budget announced by Minister Paschal Donohoe in the Dáil today.

An 80-year-old widow who takes in a student lodger to help her feel more secure at home has accused the Government of putting pensioners on a waiting list.

The Irish Tax Institute has said today's Budget will allow SMEs ot innovate "at a time when they are more at risk and need to diversify".

Labour TD Joan Burton has accused Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe of "travelling down the same path" as Charlie McCreevy's boom-time budgets in his financial plan for next year.

TheGovernment's plan to mitigate against a looming Brexit is a multi-million euro loans scheme for small business.

The Education Budget will increase by 5.8%, which equates to a €554m increase and more than €10bn in total spend.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's claims his controversial strategic communications unit will cost the public nothing have been proven untrue after budget documents showed it will in fact cost €5m next year.

Find out what Budget 2018 means for your pocket.