Daniel McConnell: Anger and compromise as Budget got thrashed out
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, right, and Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath arriving at Government Buildings, Dublin, to unveil the Budget.
Last Monday afternoon, photographer Moya Nolan and I were in the portrait room in the Department of Finance with ministers Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohoe.
It has become a tradition to get photographs of them ‘signing off on the Budget’ the day before its formal announcement.
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