Brian Cowen

Brian Cowen, promoted to prime minister in 2008 after being finance minister, doesn't even get to run. He resigns as leader of the Fianna Fail Party weeks before the February, 2011 election. It doesn't help his party, which suffers its worst ever defeat.  

FORMER Taoiseach Brian Cowen has vigorously defended his government's handling of the banking crisis and insisted that Europe is duty-bound to let Ireland restructure the bank debts his administration agreed to. The comments from Mr Cowen mark his first ...  

A SPECIAL adviser to former Taoiseach Brian Cowen got a €164,566 top-up to his civil service wages.  

FORMER Taoiseach Brian Cowen has vigorously defended his government's handling of the banking crisis and insisted that Europe is duty-bound to let Ireland restructure the bank debts his administration agreed to.  

A teenager who crashed into a stationary Garda Special Branch car, which was escorting former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, during a high-speed garda chase has today avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.  

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, ex-bank bosses Eugene Sheehy and Brian Goggin, and former top government official Kevin Cardiff will be compelled to reveal their role in the night of the infamous bank guarantee.  

Former taoiseach Brian Cowen has defended his government’s blanket bank guarantee in 2008 but said it should have raised taxes and cut spending.  

FORMER Taoiseach Brian Cowen has vigorously defended his government's handling of the banking crisis and insisted that Europe is duty-bound to let Ireland restructure the bank debts his administration agreed to.  

TWICE in recent weeks, Brian Cowen came out of seclusion. The first time, at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis, he got a standing ovation. He responded with what looked like gratitude and perhaps a little disbelief.  

On April 13, 2006, Brian Cowen, then the minister for finance, delivered a keynote speech to 300 property developers, solicitors, accountants and real estate agents in the Berkeley Court Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.  

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has suggested that Brian Cowen was ultimately responsible for a civil servant’s warnings on the property bubble being ignored.  

Prime Minister Brian Cowen was the first victim of the debt crisis when his Fianna Fail party, which dominated political life for 80 years, lost a general election in February 2011. Cowen was replaced by Enda Kenny, of the conservative Fine Gael ...