Brian Cowen

Cowen factor as Trump win cheers cannabis crypto entrepreneur

Former taoiseach sits on advisory board of GetTangi Corp which sees Trump return to White House as ‘potentially transformative’

Sun Nov 17 2024 - 06:00

Gastropub owners told to pay rent arrears to ‘accidental landlord’ IRFU

Owners of rugby fan favourite the Chop House were in dispute with rugby body over rented home in Dublin 4

Sun May 19 2024 - 06:00

John Moran changes his tune on lobbying as he runs for Limerick mayor

Web Summit’s Lobbying Register absence; why Simon Harris won’t lodge in the Phoenix Park; and more bad news for EV drivers

Sun Apr 07 2024 - 06:00

Tough, lucky and clever (but not too clever): what makes a good taoiseach?

It’s like no other job in the country. If you think anyone can do it, you have no idea what’s involved

Sun Mar 31 2024 - 07:00

Peter Mandelson viewed by Irish officials as ‘arrogant’ in public but ‘insecure in private’

State papers: An MP colleague also remarked that Mandelson’s tunnel vision was his greatest strength and his greatest weakness

Fri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00

Martin notes ‘huge incompatibility’ between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin when asked about future coalition

Party leader accuses media of ‘cheerleading’ Sinn Féin as if outcome of the next election is a ‘slam dunk’

Mon Sept 11 2023 - 15:11

Over €87,000 spent upgrading underused Steward’s Lodge in Dublin’s Phoenix Park

House in Farmleigh Estate, refurbished for use as taoiseach’s residence by OPW, rarely used by office holders

Sun Sept 03 2023 - 06:45

Former taoiseach Brian Cowen determined to walk daughter down the aisle as he recovers from stroke

Clara, Co Offaly, native spent a year in hospital, after suffering a bleed on the brain four years ago

Mon Jul 03 2023 - 19:18

Jennifer O’Connell: Is The Late Late Show really what the Ireland of 2023 wants?

Ryan Tubridy has a sense of timing, but Montrose behaves as though the outside world hasn’t changed since Gaybo's heyday

Sat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00

Craughwell wants early hearing for challenge to airspace ‘arrangement’ with British military

Senator Gerard Craughwell claims ‘secret arrangement’ allowing British intercept aircraft in Irish airspace ‘unconstitutional’

Fri Feb 24 2023 - 18:09

European supergrid linking solar power in south to wind in north ‘only way to go’, says Tánaiste

Micheál Martin speaking at launch of book on decarbonising Europe by Dr Eddie O’Connor and Irish Times journalist Kevin O’Sullivan

Thu Feb 23 2023 - 20:25

Hugh Linehan: Welcome to season 15 of RTÉ’s Let’s Not Make a Decision

Moya Doherty was right to have challenged Micheál Martin about the Government’s inaction on public-service broadcasting reform

Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00

Liz Truss’s chaotic final 24 hours mirrors Brian Cowen’s farcical downfall

Fianna Fáil had little choice but to call an election in which the coalition parties were routed. The Tories could meet same fate

Fri Oct 21 2022 - 17:09

Colin Hunt: Green transition ‘is the biggest opportunity in the history of global banking’

AIB is emerging from the pandemic in a strong position given its earnings potential and rising interest rates

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 13:00

Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin is playing the long game amid election that is its to lose

The party will opt to ‘make Northern Ireland work’ . . . for now

Thu Apr 07 2022 - 01:00

From Russia with no love: The Irish firms trading behind Putin’s new Iron Curtain

Some of State’s biggest listed businesses have invested heavily in sanctions-hit Russia

Fri Mar 04 2022 - 05:28

The golf game between bankers and taoiseach that entered political mythology

Séan FizPatrick and two of the bank’s directors played golf with Brian Cowen

Tue Nov 09 2021 - 20:26

Repairing the public finances requires drab and uneventful budgeting

Budget 2022: Pension and welfare increases reflect focus on cost of living

Tue Oct 12 2021 - 15:53

Redress for abuse in religious institutions falls short of 2009 commitments

Many properties transferred to trusts set up shortly before publication of Ryan Report

Wed Sept 08 2021 - 04:27

Murphy hits back hard at critics over mother and baby home report

Controversy over report far from over following commission chair’s robust response

Fri Jun 11 2021 - 19:29

Fifty years of Martyn Turner cartoons: ‘I have always been a liberal bigot’

The Irish Times satirist on the X case cartoon, those worms and his inability to draw

Sat Jun 05 2021 - 06:00

Seán Moncrieff: Stephen Donnelly seems to be trapped in Kobayashi Maru

Minister is continually compared to some other, fantasy minister who would do a far better job

Sat May 15 2021 - 07:41

What would be the economic costs and benefits of a united Ireland?

Agenda: The subvention argument tends to view the North as a deadweight, a financial burden to be shouldered by whatever entity follows

Fri May 07 2021 - 05:35

Eoghan Murphy: Influential figure who was still deemed a ‘rising prospect’

Resignation comes as a shock as few thought bruising spell in housing would be last time in cabinet

Tue Apr 27 2021 - 15:26

Landmark office investment in Dublin’s Georgian core seeks €2.2m

Basement of 127 Lower Baggot Street was home to Celtic Tiger haunt Joys Nite Club

Wed Apr 07 2021 - 06:00

Vaccine debacle raises questions about credibility of Beacon chief

Michael Cullen has survived first onslaught of the controversy but now faces review

Tue Mar 30 2021 - 04:23

Miriam Lord: Zooming in and out of reality at the Public Accounts Committee

The sitting is a bit like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? when they phone a friend

Tue Feb 09 2021 - 21:41

Brexit talks continue but at this stage prayers may be more useful

Inside Politics: Taoiseach misses point when it comes to student nurses and well-off public servants

Thu Dec 10 2020 - 07:20

Appointment of judges remains a haphazard, opaque process

Even most Ministers tend not to see how a Government arrives at selections for judicial roles

Fri Nov 13 2020 - 02:54

Golf dinner controversy severely damages Government’s management of pandemic

Analysis: the revelations have undermined - and perhaps destroyed - public trust

Fri Aug 21 2020 - 12:53

Funeral takes place of mother of former taoiseach Brian Cowen

Mary ‘May’ Cowen remembered as person of strength, strong faith and for her dedication to family

Sat Aug 15 2020 - 19:14

‘It’s a disgrace’: Clara reacts to the sacking of Barry Cowen

Co Offaly town expresses disappointment at removal of local Fianna Fáil TD from Cabinet

Wed Jul 15 2020 - 22:03

Varadkar ‘doesn’t fully trust’ banks amid profiteering claims

Ministers to meet chief executives of banks next week over Covid-19 mortgage breaks

Sat Jul 11 2020 - 16:03

Taoiseach ‘disappointed’ he only learned of Barry Cowen’s driving ban on Friday

Minister of Agriculture served three-month ban in 2016 after being stopped for drink-driving

Sat Jul 04 2020 - 14:25