Saturday, 22nd January 2011

The third major political resignation in as many days...

Peter Hoskin 2:54pm

...although this one is over in Ireland. After a turbulent week, Brian Cowen has stood down as leader of Fianna Fail, yet he staggers on as Taoiseach
until the general election on 11 March:

Channel 4 have a useful summary of the contenders to replace him.

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Austin Barry

January 22nd, 2011 3:44pm Report this comment

Cowen is a disaster.

His bloated complacent face typifies the corrupt, inbred and mendacious Irish political class.

I hope for his sake that when he is booted out he can return to his campanology at Notre Dame.

Barry Bilge

January 22nd, 2011 4:07pm Report this comment

What are the extra people for? Cowan had a similar gaggle of faces when he was announcing the bailout plans. Has doughnutting escaped the houses of democracy and into the wider world?

Boudicca

January 22nd, 2011 4:10pm Report this comment

Good.

I wonder if this has anything to do with Barosso announcing in the EU Parliament that Ireland's economic woes are entirely of her own making and the Irish Government is responsible, not the EU.

The Irish people would do well to vote for a Party, any Party, which pledges to remove Ireland from the Eurozone. Stay in it, and they will be serfs of Brussels forever.

David Ossitt

January 22nd, 2011 5:00pm Report this comment

This poor benighted sod, remember when his countrymen had just given a No Vote to something European.

And he was attending a Brussels summit meeting, he wandered around like a bad smell at a wedding and nobody but nobody would talk to him.

barnacle bill

January 22nd, 2011 5:16pm Report this comment

Pity he didn't have the cajones to call an immediate general election then the legislation tying up all the loose ends of Eire's bail-out would have been lost.
Instead by hanging on till March he allows the handcuffs to be fastened on the people's future and the key thrown away.

denis cooper

January 22nd, 2011 5:16pm Report this comment

I expect the EU will help fix him up with some job (or non-job) as a reward for his services.

Dennis Churchill

January 22nd, 2011 5:21pm Report this comment

A country with a workforce of a couple of a million that needs to increase its GDP while a 1000 or so of its best workforce leaves each week...
Joining the Euro was a disaster for Ireland. If it had stayed out the inappropriate interest rates would never have occurred and the property bubble prevented from destabilising the economy and wrecking its banks.
Its political class seem even more entrenched than ours, possibly because they did not get an influx from Continental Europe prior to and shortly after World War 2 in the way we did. Their parliament seems to have more ‘hereditaries’ than the old House of Lords (including Cowen)

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