There was a €2 billion improvement in the Exchequer surplus at the end of 2025 when receipts from the Apple tax ruling were excluded.

Sinn Féin has defended putting forward a much larger alternative budget than the parameters set by Government, despite warnings from experts

Party leader Holly Cairns outlined a number of long-term measures to ‘genuinely transform people’s lives’.

The study claimed basic unification costs after losing UK subvention and adjusting for other factors would run to nearly €11 billion a year