Cowen urged to explain bank talks

Cowen urged to explain bank talks: "Taoiseach Brian Cowen has come under increasing pressure to explain previously private meetings with disgraced former Anglo-Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick.<br /> Mr Cowen was facing calls to make a full statement on his relations with the banker and his knowledge of the banking crisis in the months before the Government signed off a taxpayer-backed guarantee scheme in September 2008.<br /> The Taoiseach's coalition colleague and Green Party leader John Gormley is to demand explanations about the previously undisclosed meetings with Mr FitzPatrick. Mr Cowen and the bankrupt ex-Anglo boss played golf and had dinner at exclusive Druid's Glen Golf Club two months before the Government hurried through a crippling protection plan to save Anglo and other homegrown Irish banks from collapse."

Cowen urged to explain bank talks

Cowen urged to explain bank talks: "Taoiseach Brian Cowen has come under increasing pressure to explain previously private meetings wit...

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