Summary
Taoiseach follows his 'unscripted' speech with RTE radio interview in which he denies bank bail-outs were to help builders and rich pals of Fianna Fail
THE Taoiseach yesterday insisted he was not governing on behalf of wealthy friends of Fianna Fail, saying: 'I don't make decisions based on developers.' Brian Cowen was speaking as concern grows at the closeness of his party to wealthy men who had been all but wiped out by the bank crash but were rescued by the Government's E400bn guarantee, the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and the E7bn recapitalisation of Bank of Ireland and AIB.See the full content of this document
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'I Didn't Do This for Developers' [Eire Region]
Businessmen including Sean Quinn, as well as a number of developers, were left exposed by the wipeout of Anglo, where Mr Cowen's close friend Fintan Drury was a director until 2006. Developer Harry Crosbie went so far as t...
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