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Brian Lenihan, the finance minister who led Ireland through the financial crisis, has died at the age of 52. He passed away at home surrounded by his family after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has passed the poisoned chalice of Fianna Fail’s leadership to a willing recipient, writes Ireland expert Dr Peter Stafford.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has stepped down as leader of the ruling Fianna Fail party after a week of chaos in his party. Who are the contenders for the poisoned chalice?
The spending cuts in Ireland outlined by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan were “not a normal budget, but the environment in which it was delivered is not normal”, writes economist Dr Peter Stafford.
A coalition government is the likely outcome of Ireland’s general election, with Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. Carl Dinnen says voters have delivered a “fracturing of the Irish body politic”.
Fianna Fáil will bear the brunt of an angry Irish electorate, but is a Fine Gael government more of the same, asks Dr Peter Stafford, an economic and political analyst based in Dublin.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said that he will stay on as leader of the Fianna Fail party for the best interests of the country after calls for his resignation.
Ireland outlines its toughest budget cuts in a generation as the country’s finance minister says it is time to move forward with “confidence and purpose”, writes Siobhan Kennedy.
As Ireland hears the austerity measures that are part of the condition of its European bail-out, Faisal Islam blogs on the wrecked economy which sees Paddy Power become the most valuable financial institution in Ireland.
Negotiations over a multi-billion euro bailout with the IMF and EU continue, as the Irish Government faces calls for a General Election from a coalition partner. Faisal Islam examines the budget plan.
Irish TV is calling it the biggest decision ever made by an Irish government, as the country goes cap in hand to Europe and the IMF for a bail-out, writes Faisal Islam.
Ireland finally asks Europe for a financial bailout, after weeks of speculation – but the strings which might be attached to the “momentous” deal are not yet clear, as Faisal Islam explains.
The hasty confirmation Ireland will, after all the denials, apply for financial aid shows the country is no longer master of its own destiny, writes economic analyst Dr Peter Stafford.
I’ve just been talking to the Chancellor George Osborne at a briefing in Brussels after his lunch with fellow European finance ministers about the Irish debt question.
Britain could make bilateral loans to Ireland to prop up its economy – a move which would have been “unthinkable” until this week, as Faisal Islam writes.