Budget 2025 Live: ‘Bonanza’ budget repeats Ireland’s past mistakes
Good morning and welcome to our continued live coverage of Budget 2025. The day after budget day is when departments give more detailed briefings, finance Ministers answer your questions and some of the finer points are parsed in more detail.
There is a bit of a morning after the night before vibe today. While there were few surprises, given so much had been flagged in advance, the scale of the budget spending was still remarkable.
And it is that scale which is the focus for the State’s independent budgetary watchdog, which has sharply criticised Tuesday’s bonanza budget, warning that it “repeats Ireland’s past mistakes of pumping billions into the economy when it is at full employment”. Join Conor Pope for rolling coverage and reaction.
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World
- Israel and US promise sharp response to Iranian missile attack: Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night in retaliation for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hizbullah allies in Lebanon. Israel and the US promised a sharp response to the attack.
- Vance-Walz vice-presidential debate: JD Vance steals the night from underwhelming Tim Walz: Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate between Republican nominee JD Vance and Tim Walz, plucked by Kamala Harris from a number of promising contenders in early August, was billed as one of the most consequential in US election history.
News in Ireland
- ‘Broken’ landlord tells RTB she had to sell house after tenants’ dogs defecated on floors: A landlord of 20 years said tenants who allowed their dogs defecate inside her Co Galway property had “broken her” and she now wanted to sell the house, the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) has heard.
- Cork chip shop Jackie Lennox’s to close after serving more than 14 million bags of chips: The Korean War was raging, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were starring in The African Queen, Noël Browne resigned as minister for health, and Cork soccer star Jackie Lennox and his wife Eileen opened a chip shop on Bandon Road on the city’s southside.
- Road crash victim James Daniels (13) was ‘loving and loyal to the core’, mother tells funeral: James Daniels (13), one of two teenagers killed in a crash at Cloonfad on the Mayo-Roscommon border on Friday evening, was described at his funeral Mass on Tuesday as “a whirlwind of uncontrolled exuberance, charismatic, loving and loyal to the core and so funny”.
- Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s film: In a shock to the filmmaking world, Daniel Day-Lewis is, seven years after quitting acting, returning to the business in a project directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
- Weather forecast: Today will be mostly dry with sunny spells and just a chance of isolated light showers. Highest temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees. Tonight will be dry with clear spells, in light southeasterly breezes. Lowest temperatures generally ranging from 5 to 8 degrees.
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Sports
- Denis Leamy says Donncha O’Callaghan’s criticism of Munster ‘on the money’: Munster were not about to talk themselves into a crisis after match two of the new season. Not just yet.
Life & Style
- ‘Someone has been putting pictures of me on the internet in various states’: Q: “I am conflicted and angry. I share a house with four friends and various people have come and gone over the two years I have been here. I discovered that one of the others has been putting pictures of me on the internet in various states, and I am blindsided by this.”
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