Three weeks ago, Paschal Donohoe smiled his way into the Westbury Hotel in Dublin city centre to do his annual post-Budget event with The Currency and Cantor Fitzgerald. A trickle of rain had turned to a downpour, but Donohoe, true to form, turned up early, and he turned up happy. He asked for no questions in advance, and made it clear that he was willing to answer any questions from the audience – his only ask was that he leave five minutes early as he had a meeting in the Department of Finance that he needed to attend. As the…