Brian Cowen

...being urged by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to drop his support for Mr Blair. He says Mr Cowen should "get off the British horse and back an Irish candidate". 'Serial sex pest' A Premiership footballer is making the headlines for the...

In this article: Marlon King, Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, Peter Wilson, Tony Blair, The Sun, Taoiseach, The Irish News, and Fine Gael

...bluff of Kenny, Gilmore TAOISEACH Brian Cowen will next week call the bluff of Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore by directly challenging them to detail how they would cut EUR4bn to salvage the public finances. The Fine Gael and Labour...

In this article: Enda Kenny, Eamon Gilmore, Fine Gael, Irish Independent, Labour, Department of Finance, and Revenue

...revolt by his own backbenchers. In a clear sign that he will struggle to win over a group of his own rural TDs, Mr Cowen will directly appeal to Fine Gael and Labour to support the Government's proposals. It also emerged last night that...

In this article: Fine Gael, Labour, Taoiseach, Irish Independent, Fianna Fail, and Noel Dempsey

...is still an outside bet for the EU President's post. Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny asked Mr Cowen what "direct contact" he intended to make on behalf of Mr Bruton's candidacy. The Fine Gael leader said as a vice-president of the...

In this article: John Bruton, Taoiseach, Government, Fine Gael, EU, Lisbon, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, Enda Kenny, and Vaclav Klaus

...constituency: junior minister Conor Lenihan, Fianna Fail's Charlie 'Tallaght Tallaght' O'Connor, Labour's Pat Rabbitte and Brian Hayes of Fine Gael. "Being around just quickly the various parts of the operation here this morning, it's...

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...the grants to the country's 21 Protestant schools. Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny asked Taoiseach Brian Cowen in the Dail to reveal who had requested the Attorney General's advice. Mr Kenny claimed Protestant schools were told they would...

In this article: Legal advice, Department of Education, Enda Kenny, Taoiseach, Freedom of Information Act, Fine Gael, and Wesley College

Cowen urged to overrule O'Keeffe on school funding Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has called on the Taoiseach to overrule the Minister for Education's decision to cut funding to Protestant schools. Speaking in the Dail this morning, Mr Kenny...

In this article: Enda Kenny, Department of Education, Taoiseach, Archbishop of Dublin, and Fine Gael

...do so. But Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said it showed Mr Cowen could not resist the temptation to put on the tribal war-paint and beat the tom-toms for the Fianna Fail faithful by trying to give the opposition a good kicking. He...

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...can't have it both ways". Mr Cowen is attempting to increase the pressure on Labour and Fine Gael to spell out their alternative plans for EUR4bn in cuts during the pre-Budget debate in the Dail this week. But Mr Gilmore yesterday...

In this article: Eamon Gilmore, Taoiseach, Tax, Fine Gael, Enda Kenny, Labour, Richard Bruton, Carbon, and Fianna Fail