for those of you looking for live coverage of the Irish Budget 2009 (or the 4th attempt as some call it), have a peek at the live streams from the Oireachtas website, provided mostly by HEAnet.

Dail Eireann – Windows Media Player – http://asx.heanet.ie/oireachtas/dail_broadband.asx

Dail Eireann – Flash Player (new to me) – http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/DailFlash512KB.htm

Dail Eireann – audio only – http://asx.heanet.ie/oireachtas/dail_audioonly.asx

RTE have a twitter account and a special page on their website for the occasion – http://twitter.com/RTEBudget2009 and http://www.rte.ie/money/budget2009/

Unfortunately there is no concensus on which tag to use on twitter but you can watch #aprilbudget #bludget or #budget09 for live tweets. Do like me and add them all together like this http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+aprilbudget+OR+bludget+OR+budget09