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All photos (except 1980) from the Photocall Ireland archive.
Budget 2012
In photos: Memorable Budget days of the past
Bruton’s VAT on children’s shoes, McCreevy’s decentralisation, Mac the Knife, ‘turning a corner’ – and plenty more.
IT’S A DAY that has prompted more fear and loathing and love and hope – occasionally flipping between appalling savagery and surprising generosity.
Budget Day, down the years, has come to occupy a somewhat mythical status – a day that makes or breaks the careers of Minister for Finance, makes unlikely icons out of others, and has bequeathed more than its fair share of terminology to the watching public.
Here’s our quick look back at some of the more memorable Budgets of the past to whet the appetite and jog the memory, with a few bits of trivia thrown in wherever possible.
You might know, for example, that the 1982 Budget brought the collapse of a government – but you might be mistaken as to which vote prompted Garret’s trip to the Áras…
1970 - Absent Frenemies
1980 - 'Way Beyond Our Means'
1982 - "Children's Shoes" (or was it?)
1987 - Mac The Knife
1991 - Prime Time
1992 - Lovely Girls
1995 - The Least Secret Budget Ever?
2000 - The Great Giveaway Show
2004 - 'Dublin-centric thinking'
2009 - What's That in the Distance?
2009 (again) - Emergency Measures
2011 - Out of our Hands
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