Waterford academic: Budget 'too centred on Cork and Dublin'

Ray Griffin, lecturer in Strategic Management, Waterford Institute of Technology.

The budget announced by the Government is "massively reckless", further alienates regional Ireland, and is too centred on Cork and Dublin, a leading Waterford-based academic has said.

Dr Ray Griffin, a lecturer in strategic management at Waterford Institute of Technology's school of business, said the 2021 allocation of funding was reminiscent of 1977 - a year seen by historians as economically disastrous in the longer-term because of costly populist moves to appease an electorate.