It is coming up to 24 hours since Budget 2026 was delivered, and sitting in his stately office in the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment on Kidare Street, Peter Burke is in decidedly chipper form. His mood is not unexpected.  In advance of the budget, his cabinet colleague Paschal Donohoe had argued that budgets were about choices and decisions. And, in the end, most of those choices and decisions fell in Burke’s favour. People and sectors might have different views of Budget 2026. But no one is in any doubt that the budget prioritised business and enterprise over pretty…

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