Michael Noonan: €1.24bn costing shortfall in Fianna Fáil’s manifesto is the party’s ‘black hole of Calcutta’

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has branded a €1.24bn shortfall in the costings in Fianna Fáil’s election manifesto as the party’s “black hole of Calcutta”

Mr Noonan was speaking at a press event in Dublin, where he sought to question Fianna Fáil’s and Sinn Fein’s economic credentials.

He also took aim at what he called “Chicken Licken economists” who have sought to criticise his promises on USC.