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Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen 'hopes to walk again soon' following stroke last year
“For us all, it’s encouraging he’s making progress,” his family said.
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“For us all, it’s encouraging he’s making progress,” his family said.
We asked the party’s environment spokesperson Barry Cowen to outline his policy this week.
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
The former Taoiseach says that he takes his “full measure of responsibility” for the financial crash, but says nobody could have foreseen what was coming.
The former taoiseach’s first interview in over two years, conducted with TG4 and airing next week, reveals plenty about him.
The former taoiseach reveals that he felt some things written and said about him went too far in an in-depth interview with TG4 to be aired next week.
The former taoiseach has given an interview to TG4 which is due to air next week.
Cowen succeeded Bertie Ahern at the helm of government on May 7, 2008. Here he is, leading a hometown singsong.
The paper has also acknowledged that the former taoiseach attended a course at Stanford University at his own expense, with no public funding involved.
This month’s Hot Press carries a piece written by a barman at the Galway hotel where Brian Cowen was alleged to have spent the night drinking prior to his infamous interview on Morning Ireland in 2010.
Ousted TD gets seat – but just for a few weeks until Seanad election.
Dublin pub has ‘Biffo on the Bog’ and other controversial nude portrait of Taoiseach on display for general election.
The Ceann Comhairle called him “Taoiseach Bertie Ahern” but Cowen got a standing ovation for speech as four other party leaders fired the first shots of the election campaign.
Taoiseach said yesterday he would not contest election, but his brother might be selected as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the Laois/Offaly constituency tonight.
Taoiseach has fruitful meeting with Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness in North-South Ministerial Council – but is hit by barrage of questions about his leadership in Q&A afterwards. (And at home, by Conor Lenihan).
New claims by David Drumm contradict statements made by Cowen in the Dáil on Wednesday, as Taoiseach continues to meet with party colleagues over FF leadership.
And Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke denies suggestions Cowen’s comments yesterday have sparked a party heave this morning.
John Gormley to meet Taoiseach today as opposition parties criticise revelations Cowen met with Sean Fitzpatrick for golf and dinner two months before the bank guarantee scheme’s introduction.
Taoiseach says he intends to retain party leadership heading into next election, and appears to have the backing of his parliamentary colleagues.
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