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Gallery: how Twitter reacted to Budget 2012

Here’s how the Twittersphere saw part one of the Budget 2012 announcements…

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:

Gallery: how Twitter reacted to Budget 2012
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