Reblogged from The Cedar Lounge Revolution:
A telling report in the SBP that ‘Online interest in last week’s budget was unusually low compared to other years, according to figures from [..] internet services company.’ And:
Funnily enough, the UK media has paid no attention to Ireland's finances after the risk of a debt default dissipated. And it seems that many of the people of Ireland have fallen into depressed lack of action.Murphy speculated that the downturn in interest was due to apathy and a “weariness in consumption of budget material”, much of which had already been leaked prior to last Wednesday. “As an example of the drop, traffic around Budget 2011 would have been in the region of 10GB per second during the two hours of the budget delivery in the Dáil, whereas this year traffic only reached 0.9GB per second at Budget 2013 peak,” Murphy said.
