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.  

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.  

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 ...