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Lorraine Courtney: Don’t get too excited by spending in the Budget – it takes skill to throw money at problems without fixing them

If there’s one thing we Irish really hate, it’s when other people don’t approve of us. So when Fortune magazine has a pop at our economic habits, it stings a bit, doesn’t it? The Apple money has created a new headache for “an economy with more money than sense,” it reported last week. Ouch.

The cost of the National Children's Hospital now stands at €2.2bn. Photo: Brian Lawless If there’s one thing we Irish really hate, it’s when other people don’t approve of us.

So when Fortune magazine has a pop at our economic habits, it stings a bit, doesn’t it? The Apple money has created a new headache for “an economy with more money than sense,” it reported last week. Ouch. But it has a point.

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