Climbdown III: Hanafin shows up in budget slasher movie

IT’S Hallowe’en, but after events of recent weeks, there will be few Government ministers with an appetite for horror movies tonight.

They’ve already endured a horror show of their own, and it was called The Budget.

It started with the medical card crisis. There was any number of brutal measures in the budget, but it was the decision to remove the over-70s’ automatic right to medical cards that became the first source of protest.