THERE HAS BEEN a mixed reaction to Budget 2017, which is seen as a ‘something for everyone’ approach rather than a windfall for anyone in particular.

Every national newspaper bar one leads with the Budget this morning.

Here’s what the front pages look like:

Here are the headlines:

• The Irish Times: €1.3bn budget package to break EU rules, watchdog warns (the spending is higher than predicted)
• Irish Examiner: €300m finances ‘black hole’ looms (in relation to the Government not making provisions for water charges potentially being abolished)
• Irish Independent: All that pain, so little gain
• Irish Daily Mail: The Budget Backlash
• The Herald: Forgotten Families (referencing stay-at-home parents and grandparents who mind their grandchildren)
• Irish Daily Star: Pint For Everyone (focusing on the fiver increase on the pension and other social welfare payments)
• The Irish Sun: Great Irish Take Off (with Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Noonan said to be channeling the Great British Bake Off by “dishing out sweeteners”)

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