Budget 2019: A lot done, but not for entrepreneurs

With so much to be pleased with, why are so many Irish business leaders disappointed with this year’s budget?

Irish policymakers and Irish citizens can take a lot of satisfaction from Budget 2019. Ten years ago, Ireland was struck by an enormous economic shock. The scale of the disaster, in terms of GDP and jobs lost, size of bank bailouts and the amount of personal and government debt run up, made it one of the largest economic blows ever suffered by a developed economy in peacetime. By most measures it was a ...