Micheál Martin will feel the heat from Fianna Fáil colleagues over the failure of the Jim Gavin presidential campaign, but the budget may provide temporary respite on Tuesday. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
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The calculators are at the ready, and the ledgers and the balance sheets are open.
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It’s that regular occurrence in Irish public life: trying to budget for how much of Fianna Fáil’s political capital has been deflated through another self-inflicted omnishambles.
I’ve been covering budgets for the past 20 years and I can’t remember one being overshadowed to such a huge extent by another domestic political story. Of course, it’s the fallout from the dramatic withdrawal of Jim Gavin from the presidential election campaign.
It is the lead story today and eclipses the usual First Tuesday in October all-day menu, which more or less tells you everything that’
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