Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen defied mounting pressure to quit and announced Monday he would stay in office until parliament passed an austerity budget needed to secure an IMF/EU bailout and ...

Leo Crawford – then boss of Spar Ireland owner BWG – found himself standing in the office of the then taoiseach Brian Cowen, wondering what was coming next. It was late 2010, and the Troika ...

Some of this goes back to remarks by former holder Brian Cowen that the Department of Health was like Angola, full of unexploded landmines. However, consider this for a moment, three of the most ...

Minutes from a phone call between then-Northern Ireland secretary John Reid and Ireland’s foreign affairs minister Brian Cowen on the day of the Stormontgate raid are among those recently unsealed by ...