Budget coverage dominates all of today’s newspapers. The view is that the budget is a ploy to win votes for the next election.
Everyone will get some extra cash as a result of the measures. The only tax hike is an increase in the cost of a packet of cigarettes and hundreds of gardai and teachers will be hired - read it all here.
In other news:
Tributes are being to Paul O Connell who has played his last game for Ireland. Players vow to make O’Connell proud as the iconic leader bows out.
Louth gun victim still too ill to undergo surgery.
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Alive for 90 seconds - the details of the tragic MH17 flight, which was shot down by a Russian missile killing 298 people, have emerged.
