“On the bank guarantee… He was protecting the people who used their money, who had overdrafts, who had mortgages, who had savings in the banks.”
Brian Cowen was considered one of Irish politics’s brightest lights. He was elected as a TD when he was 24, but by the age of 51, he had retired from office. Gary Murphy’s new biography looks at Cowen in the round. He talks to Dion Fanning about how Cowen feels about his time in office and the calamities that befell him and the country.
