Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
So as Ingrid notes, EU member states have chosen Von Rompuy as the new President of the European Council. To use the terms that Euro-politicians have themselves been using (which were nicked, presumably by Brian Cowen, from the title of a political science text on Irish Taoisigh), they have decided to go for a chairman [...]
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sarkozy told Irish PM Brian Cowen how sorry he was, but he said he couldn't substitute himself for the referee or the football authorities or European football authorities.
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy apologised to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen for France's controversial victory over Ireland in their World Cup play-off on Wednesday, but would not
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In spite of embarrassment over the nature of the French team's win, the appeal by Brian Cowen, Irish prime minister, for the French government to join his campaign for a rematch was rebuffed in Paris
UnLaoised (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
We all know that the French can be a right shower of bastards when they want to be. Just ask the New Zealanders. Back in 1985, they sank a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour, drowning a photographer in the process. Ten years later, they started testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, blowing the shit out of a number of atolls in the region. Judging by the hysteria in the...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Wednesday that a new boss of Allied Irish Bank will take a pay cut to comply with a salary guideline cap of 500,000 euros (745,000 dollars). On Tuesday, the government had rejected a request from AIB to continue to pay senior executive Colm Doherty his current 633,000-euro annual salary if he took the newly-created post of managing director. Cowen told the Dail,...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Taoiseach Brian Cowen has told the Dáil that Allied Irish Banks (AIB) executive Colm Doherty has agreed to have his salary capped at €500,000 in his new role of managing director of the bank.
Irish Election (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Maire Geoghegan Quinn’s statement on her nomination to be Ireland’s next commissioner is below the fold. “In the immediate future, I will be working with the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and with An Taoiseach Brian Cowen T.D. on the issue of my future responsibilities and portfolio allocation within the European Commission,” she [...]
Irish Election (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen T.D. announced this afternoon that Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, currently the Irish member of the European Court of Auditors, will be the Government’s nominee for appointment to the next European Commission. “I am pleased to announce that the Government are nominating Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as the next Irish Commissioner. She has been an exemplary member...
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
There is bad blood after Peter Hain stood fast and vetoed Edinburgh as the seat of the permanent secretariat of the British and Irish council. Hain was representing the UK Government at the meeting. Why I wonder! Hain claimed there had to be a total consensus on the decision and simply refused to agree to it. In the first round of voting, Edinburgh received 5 votes, the Isle of Man 2 and Cardiff 1....
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
British-Irish council representatives of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey all voted for the permanent secretariat of the council to be based in Edinburgh. Guess who vetoed the move? You're right, the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain ( pictured above ), who was representing the UK, at a meeting of the BIC on Friday in Jersey. Listen to this for an excuse...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen is likely to finalise the nomination of Ireland’s next European commissioner following discussions this weekend with José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Government’s 20-year strategy for the Irish language was in its final stages of preparation, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said today after the 13th British-Irish Council Summit held in St Helier, Jersey.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen will be among the representatives of eight national and regional administrations from Britain and Ireland in attendance at the 13th summit meeting of the British-Irish Council, which takes place in Jersey today.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
IRELAND WAS in the top eight in the world, per head of population, in the provision of overseas development aid, Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the Dáil.
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