Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has confirmed for the first time he has never been contacted by the Government about commissioning an official state portrait ... Tuesday, 27 May 2025 ePaper ...

The Department of the Taoiseach is to seek to commission an official portrait of former taoiseach Brian Cowen in the coming weeks. The Irish Times has learned that the department has made contact ...

The portrait of former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has gone on display in Leinster House more than 12 years after he left office. The painting, which was on display in the Royal Hibernian Academy early ...

Enda Kenny has come under fire from the family of Brian Cowen after it emerged that his department has yet to give the go-ahead for an official portrait of the former Taoiseach. A spokesman for Mr ...

The Government press secretary’s complaint to RTÉ about the portraits of Brian Cowen was absurd, and it was even worse that RTÉ apologised. One Fianna Fáil deputy even intimated that Cathal ...

When two Dublin art galleries discovered nude portraits of the Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, hung on its walls, the story was immediately picked up by several media outlets. The Sunday ...