Barry Cowen

One in five TDs are landlords as Michael Healy-Rae boosts property portfolio to 25

Returns of politicians’ interests for 2023 show 29 of the 160 TDs declared that they were landlords or owned rental property

It’s hardly surprising Maria Walsh reached for ‘male, pale and stale’ label in FF candidate row

Men who agitate about labels or being supplanted by hordes of vengeful women should look around them. Fewer than a quarter of our TDs are women

Insolvency rates not at crisis point, TDs and Senators hear

Business failures are rising but, for now, remain below levels prior to Covid crisis

Miriam Lord’s Week: Maria Walsh fires early shots in skirmish with Barry Cowen

TD for Laois-Offaly sees off Niall Blaney and Lisa Chambers to run for Fianna Fáil in the Midlands North-West constituency in the EU elections, but he won’t be riding into the sunset just yet

Barry Cowen narrowly selected as Fianna Fáil European election candidate in keenly contested convention

Offaly TD edged out nearest rival by 70 votes in Mullingar count

Cowen says Government should ask experts and industry to consider future of energy, including data centres

Cowen warns that regulator must not be arbiter of digital growth

Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen to seek nomination to run for European Parliament

Former minister for agriculture wants to contest election in Midlands North West

Further delay to Bill seen as ‘largest overhaul’ of State’s planning system in decades

Government had originally hoped the Planning and Development Bill would be on the statute books before Easter

Coalition sources admit strain of ‘keeping manners’ on overspending

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warns exchequer to stick to rule limiting net spending growth to 5%

Taoiseach accused of ‘pure electioneering’ as Coalition war of words continues

Leo Varadkar should stop ‘posturing’ after doubling down on budget demands in Irish Times interview, says Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen

Cowen to change Dáil declaration to acknowledge ‘landlord’ role over farmland

TDs must list occupation of landlord or lessor if they have rental income of more than €2,600 a year

Barry Cowen defends comparison of eviction ban extension to ‘making sweets free’

Eviction ban: Offaly TD said he is sorry if people were offended by the comment meant as analogy for stopgap solution

Report calls for renewable gas options to decarbonise rural Ireland

Rural homes can achieve B1 BER for €11,000 by switching ‘renewable-ready gas boilers’ with building upgrades

Pressure mounts on Donohoe as new election expenses issue emerges

Sources acknowledge damage caused by election-spending affair to Government and Minister

Miriam Lord’s Week: Bruiser Barry’s sensible response to Paschal furore leaves Claire Byrne at a loss

Barry Cowen started off by saying very nice things about Paschal. Then moved on to say even nicer things

Decision on readmittance of MacSharry to Fianna Fáil deferred again

In letter to party officials, TD contends motion to bring him back into parliamentary group should not have been delayed because of complaint by councillor

Concern in Fianna Fáil about poor polls but no mood for early leadership change

Party struggles with lack of a clear identity as well as having no obvious challenger for the leadership

Coalition gears up for next election after unprecedented challenges

Government parties remain broadly united despite a relentlessly bleak environment

Range of proposals on criminal justice outlined to Fianna Fáil party

Tougher sentences for violent crime and sexual offences among proposals set out

Miriam Lord: ‘Votegate’ double-voting controversy rears its ugly head again

Fianna Fáil was hoping no one would mention the War of the Buttons two years later

Miriam Lord: Baby of the House throws a strop over a bypass

Dáil Sketch: O’Connor bags a meeting with the Taoiseach as MacSharry forgets who’s who

Minister denies delay to Fianna Fáil’s election postmortem is ‘kicking can down the road’

Special meeting scheduled for September 1st will now be part of party’s think-in on September 9th

Micheál Martin hints continuation of coalition linked to switch of roles at top of Government

Taoiseach’s remarks come as some in Fianna Fáil say he should go as leader

Fianna Fáil TDs urged to back Martin after disastrous byelection

TDs cast doubt on whether Micheál Martin will lead party into next general election

Fianna Fáil’s 2020 election postmortem still not delivered

Party TDs express disappointment at slowness of report and poor byelection showing

Cowen seeks special FF meeting after ‘alarming’ byelection

Former minister doesn’t mention leadership issue but says electorate deserve ‘cohesive’ party

Micheál Martin determined to lead Fianna Fáil into next election

Senior TD Barry Cowen says Martin should step down as party leader before next vote

The Irish Times view on Irish politics in 2020: Overshadowed by Covid-19

The coalition leaders showed more competence in dealing with the big issues that faced them in winter, but with the virus still surging, they will undoubtedly face further enormous challenges in the coming year

Do you remember this? What happened in 2020

2020 in review: Megxit, Weinstein, missing paddleboarders, Black Lives Matter: it wasn’t all Covid-19

Cowen ‘confident’ €40m Offaly meat plant proposal will get back on track

Project stalled after department refused immigrant investment programme application

Varadkar leak controversy shakes Coalition but unlikely to be fatal

‘Game-playing he constantly engages in has to end,’ says senior Fianna Fáil figure

Éamon Ó Cuív calls for Micheál Martin to be replaced as Fianna Fáil leader

Party veteran says low poll figures show organisation facing ‘existential crisis’

Calleary steps down as deputy leader of Fianna Fáil

Martin in ‘no hurry’ to replace ex-deputy and appointment may not take place for weeks

Golf dinner controversy severely damages Government’s management of pandemic

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

Leo Varadkar: Government has made ‘a lot of unforced errors’

Tanaiste says coalition has got off to ‘a pretty rocky start’ as Dáil breaks for six weeks

The Irish Times view on the coalition’s travails: governing by unforced error

The impression is of a Government whose disparate parts have yet to cohere into an effective whole

New mobile Garda devices do not register learner licences

Road safety group urges Garda Gcommissioner to implement technology

Barry Cowen suggests future Cabinet return, says FF has ‘come through bigger events’

TD who was sacked as minister for agriculture says he has not spoken with Martin since Tuesday

Week is a long time in politics for Micheál Martin

Cowen affair may mean as many as one-third of party TDs no longer support the Taoiseach

Stephen Collins: Micheál Martin brought political chaos on his own head

Fianna Fáil leader must take advantage of the Apple tax decision to reboot as Taoiseach

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