BUDGET 2016: Big-screen budget a costly rerun of the Celtic Tiger

The biggest lie of the week is that this Government actually cares about homeless people, writes Shaun Connolly

WHILE it may be a good idea to let sleeping dogs lie, it is a bad idea for the Government to lie to financial watchdogs in the hope they will go back to sleeping.

Not that anyone in Government ever really lies of course; they just present things in a counter-factual way and hope we don’t notice. They have been caught out telling a rake of whopping fibs this week — which is some going, even for them.