Listening to Paschal Donohoe last week, I could not help but think of House of Ireland. I met the finance minister in his office on Merrion Street shortly after the July Stimulus Plan, a €5.1 billion effort to keep the economy breathing, had been finalised. Donohoe took me though the main elements of the plan – the general Vat reduction, the stay and spend initiative, and the extension of the Wage Subsidy Scheme – and outlined the philosophy and the rationale underpinning it. The minister explained that many of the announcements would normally have been made in the Budget in…

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