Brian Cowen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Repairing the public finances requires drab and uneventful budgeting

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

Redress for abuse in religious institutions falls short of 2009 commitments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaccine debacle raises questions about credibility of Beacon chief

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

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

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

Appointment of judges remains a haphazard, opaque process

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

Golf dinner controversy severely damages Government’s management of pandemic

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

Micheál Martin, the ‘next taoiseach’ since 1998

Some say he is a ditherer, others a ruthless operator. We will soon find out who is right

Coalition parties to appoint 20 junior ministers if accord ratified

Deal would see Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael get eight roles each with four going to Greens

Financial control will add to the security of Wexford Festival Opera

Effective controls on artistic expenditure appear to have been nonexistent

One night in Paris: Henry’s stray hand, the 33rd team and the great Fifa shakedown

Sporting Controversies: Reverberations from 2009 World Cup playoff still rattle Irish football

Seán O’Rourke: 32,000 interviews later... ‘I’ve had my fill’

The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low points

Enda McNulty on standing guard at the door of your own mind

Former Armagh player talks to Keith Duggan about advice, learnings and life

Brian Cowen ‘hopes to walk again’ soon after having stroke last July

Wife says former Fianna Fáil taoiseach hopes to be able to return home in near future

‘No one mentioned potholes once’: How elections in Ireland and Britain differ

My first vote in the UK could be my last, as Britain seems to have pressed Self-Destruct

Election 2020 fact check: Has Fine Gael cut Garda stations and recruitment?

McDonald claimed Varadkar’s government and FG-Labour coalition made cutbacks

Seán Moran: Election fever a reminder of the GAA's fertile political soil

Engagement with Gaelic games has proved a potent tonic across the political spectrum

Voters must look to painful lessons learned

Kathy Sheridan: Ask hard questions but beware of dangers of change for sake of change

Varadkar leapfrogs Bruton to avoid being shortest-serving Taoiseach

FG leader becomes party’s fifth-longest-serving Taoiseach on Christmas Day

Government set for majority of three in Murphy confidence vote

Maureen O’Sullivan says ‘housing situation is so dire, how could I abstain?’

Miriam Lord: Barefaced cheek as Fianna Fáil chases make-up bills

Election fever simmers as politicians begin stockpiling ammunition – against each other

Saoirse Ronan agrees sale of Greystones home for more than €1.6m

Another well-known Irish actor and leading sportsperson both interested in star’s house

Planet Business: A world of pure reimagination

Singles joy, Disney pain and the politicians who turned company directors

Calling election this year would be a ‘stroke’, says Martin

Varadkar had ‘some neck’ to claim credit for budget demands, says FF leader

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