Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of our Fantasy Budget Competition 2019! The teams had to come up with one Budget 2019 measure that they would have introduced if they were the Minister for Finance.
A prize giving ceremony was held in the Institute offices and the Institute President Marie Bradley presented the successful teams with their prizes.
We had a lot of really great submissions for our 2019 competition, but the final three winners were UCD, DCU and Limerick IT.
First Place, UCD – under the guidance of their lecturers Charles Garavan and Ciara Deane
![L-R: Charlie Gleeson, Ben Duffy, Katie Griffin, Ian Kinsley, Marie Bradley (President of the Irish Tax Institute), Charles Garavan and Ciara Deane (lecturers)](https://staging1.taxinstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/190131_T1_028-300x200.jpg)
Second Place, DCU- under the guidance of lecturer Pauline Willis
![L-R: Pauline Willis (lecturer), John McCauley, Kehinde Obadare, Luke O'Shaughnessy and Ruairi O'Sullivan with Marie Bradley, President of the Irish Tax Institute](https://staging1.taxinstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/190131_T1_021-300x200.jpg)
Third Place, Limerick IT – under the guidance of lecturer Morna Canty
![L-R: Danielle Markham, Morna Canty (lecturer), Chloe Wallace, Aoife Nolan and Nicola Glazer with Marie Bradley, President of the Irish Tax Institute](https://staging1.taxinstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/190131_T1_011-300x200.jpg)