Brian Cowen – Peter Geoghegan

Brian Cowen ducks out as Ireland prepares for crisis election

By peterPosted on 13th April 2011Posted in Ireland, Politics, ScotsmanTagged Brian Cowen, Election, Ireland

IRELAND’s prime minister Brian Cowen yesterday announced the dissolution of the Irish parliament, in what was probably the last act of his political career. The move brought to a close one of the most controversial governments in Ireland’s history and paved the way for the first general election since last year’s bailout of the economy […]

Time for a Default?

By peterPosted on 16th November 2010Posted in Politics, ScotlandTagged Angela Merkel, Brian Cowen, Debt Restructuring, Dick Roche, IMF, Ireland, Scotland1 Comment

“There is no reason why Ireland should trigger an IMF or EU-type bailout”, Irish Minister of State for Europe, Dick Roche, told the Today program on BBC Radio 4 this morning. But despite such government protestations, the scale of Ireland’s sovereign debt crisis is such that it seems only a matter of when, not if, […]