Swingeing Budget makes few friends

Nell McCafferty, journalist and writer, has said of today's Budget: “If you leave aside the elderly, the women and the children, no-one else feels any pain. That makes Brian Lenihan a bully.

“I think Brian Lenihan should have inflicted on himself the same pain as he did on people over 70. He is giving up his pocket money and expects the elderly to give up medical care.