Prime Minister Brian Cowen is expected to lose office in an election in the first quarter of next year and a new coalition government wants to alter the 85 billion Euros joint EU/IMF rescue ...

In a letter to then-Minister of Foreign Affairs Brian Cowen on 7 January 2004, SDLP MLA Sean Farren noted that he sought legal advice on the matter while he was Minister for Finance and Personnel.

The Green Party hadn’t yet left government, then lost all of its Dáil seats, worked its way back from the very bottom, went ...