I just don't get it, whats the fuss here?
Brian Cowen has a private dinner with Directors of Anglo Irish Bank. Source says "He (Cowen) was acutely aware of our problems"
10% of Anglo Irish Bank is placed with 10 of its clients in a move not disclosed to the Irish Stock Exchange with loans for the shares being provided by Anglo.
* Fitzpatrick recalls his golf with Cowen by saying...'Anglo wanted [Cowen] to have a word about it placing some of its money on deposit with the bank. He said he'd look into it.'
* Cowen states: "I am quite clear that no discussions regarding Anglo Irish Bank took place"
Previously undisclosed contacts between Brian Cowen and Seán FitzPatrick are revealed in a new book on FitzPatrick. the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman says they had a phone conversation in March 2008 and a golf game and dinner on July 28th, 2008. Cowen confirms the golf game but says Anglo’s problems were not discussed.
12th Jan 2011:“There was nothing untoward, no hidden or secret agenda and no concessions, favours or interventions requested or granted,”
Cowen describes McGann as a director of Smurfit Group and no reference to him being a director of Anglo also. Caoimhghín was at Druids Glen on the same day as this golf and dinner, but at a seperate event and spotted and said hello to Cowen.More details emerge about Cowen’s contacts with Anglo Irish Bank figures in the lead-up to the bank guarantee in 2008. Following questions from Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, the Taoiseach tells the Dáil his dinner with FitzPatrick after a golf game in July 2008 was also attended by a second Anglo director, Gary McGann, former Anglo director Fintan Drury and a director of the Central Bank, Alan Gray.
, he said he had "no recollection"
With respect Maximus I don't think you understood the question. I know FF have made a mess of this country but I want to know, in conjunction with the timing of the golf game, whether Cowen broke a law here, whether he made a decision with insider knowledge that he shouldn't have e.g. would he have given the bank guarantee whether the golf game took place or not? Is there a Nixon moment here, a revelation that would force a resignation?
Seemingly not because he remains.
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