Budget cuts aim to reshape Ireland

Finance Minister Michael Noonan presented first budget delivery yesterday

PADDY CLANCY,

Irish Voice Reporter

Published Thursday, December 8, 2011, 8:20 AM

Updated Thursday, December 8, 2011, 10:56 AM

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Organized through Facebook, protestors from the new Occupy the Dail movement staged a protest on Tuesday. Bearing a coffin draped with the Irish flag, they are pictured occupying the Department of Agriculture.

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For first-time buyers purchasing next year, a mortgage interest relief of 25%t will apply, while non-first-time buyers can benefit from a 15% relief rate.

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sirpeter | Dec 09, 2011, 08:11 PM EST

I wish it was a theory.It's not even a cons-piracy.It's a fact.Didn't Kenny say it wasn't the Irish peoples fault.So why are WE paying the price?!!Did Americans blow up the twin towers? No!!So why impose the Patriot Act on the American people? To keep you safe is it? Like hell it is.It's always about safe guarding wealth and property.Just look up how much is spent on the fire service in comparison to the ambulance service.You would think saving life's is more important than saving buildings.Think again.Life is cheap.Buildings are expensive.

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IrelandNorth | Dec 09, 2011, 07:31 AM EST

I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that all this talk of recession and rationalisations by the Irish government is all part of a hidden agenda to further subsume us into a Fed[e]ral Europe. There may be a global economic crisis, but it's being exacerbated by self-serving politicians.

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Murph46 | Dec 08, 2011, 10:32 AM EST

Welcome to the club.Our Congress in the US should be taken out in a boat and sunk!Yours appears to be doing something.We had 535 elected officials create a twelve member committee and they did -guess what? NOTHING!

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