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# Budget 2012
Gallery: how Twitter reacted to Budget 2012
Here’s how the Twittersphere saw part one of the Budget 2012 announcements…
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Dec 5th 2011, 5:10 PM

TWEETERS HAVE BEEN all a flutter with news of #Budget2012 as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin outlined the cutbacks in public spending next year.

As Howlin delivered his speech in the Dáil here’s what some of the Twitterati had to say:

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