Aoife Moore: Budget day saw odd couple enjoying a marriage of convenience

Public expenditure minister Michael McGrath and finance minister Paschal Donohoe at Government Buildings in Dublin as they prepare to present Budget 2021. Picture: Julien Behal

More than 12,000 weddings have been cancelled this year, but the Opposition would have us believe that we'd finally seen the marriage we'd all been waiting for on budget day.

After months of discussions, Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath appeared yesterday morning, Dáil Éireann's own Woody and Buzz Lightyear, with the freshly-bound book that had more leaks than Irish Water.