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- Featuring interviews with key players in Brian Cowen's administration, ministers, TDs, senior advisers and observers piece together the inside story of the government that brought Ireland from complacent prosperity to the edge of bankruptcy
From start to finish, Brian Cowen’s government faced unprecedented economic and political upheaval. Throughout this two-part documentary series, senior ministers from Cowen’s government speak candidly about how major decisions were taken and what they thought of his leadership.
Crisis: Inside the Cowen Government relies on interviews with key players in Brian Cowen’s administration, ministers, TDs, senior advisers and observers to piece together the inside story of the government that brought Ireland from complacent prosperity to the edge of bankruptcy. The programme contains revealing new information about the Cowen administration and its final collapse earlier this year.
The two-part series, written by political editor Pat Leahy, whose best-selling book Showtime: The Inside Story of Fianna Fail in Power lifted the lid off the administrations of Bertie Ahern for the first time, is more than a retelling of this momentous story.
Looking back at the governments led by Bertie Ahern, when Brian Cowen was finance minister, and at the election campaigns fought by Fianna Fail in 2002 and 2007, the programmes trace the evolution of the crisis and show how reckless politics led directly to economic devastation. Crisis: Inside the Cowen Government explains not just what happened, but why it happened.
It is the definitive story of the most turbulent government in the history of the state, and of the disasters that befell it.
Episode One
In episode one, Crisis: Inside the Cowen Government looks at the biggest decision that Brian Cowen’s government took, the Bank Guarantee of September 2008. It appears that cabinet members believe there should have been a full and frank discussion on that fateful night.
As the government under Brian Cowen continued through 2008 and into 2009 there were those within the party who thought a general election might be the strategy to take. Brian Cowen did not take this advice and the government grew more and more unpopular.
The first episode also explains how Fianna Fáil, under Bertie Ahern, perfected its political model by turning economic success into political gain.
Episode Two 48:13
The concluding episode assesses Brian Cowen’s tenure and legacy as Taoiseach and asks if the Fianna Fáil party can resurrect itself from its worst election result
Episode two of Crisis - Inside the Cowen Government begins in September 2010 as Fianna Fáil gather in Galway for their annual Think-In.
Morning Ireland presenter Cathal MacCoille speaks for the first time about his infamous interview with Brian Cowen. He shares his thoughts on how Brian Cowen performed in that interview and what he thought of his demeanour.
Alan Ahearne, Brian Lenihan’s special adviser, reveals for the first time details about Department of Finance negotiations the weekend that senior FF minsters were denying a bailout. He describes how Brian Lenihan wanted the bailout to proceed.
As the party moved towards Christmas the question of leadership was on everybody’s minds. As 2011 dawned Brian Cowen decided it was time to silence his critics and called a vote of confidence in his leadership. Now for the first time members of the parliamentary party disclose the conversations they had with Brian Cowen.
Victory in the vote of confidence led to Brian Cowen attempting to reshuffle his cabinet. This move was seen by many as unnecessary and was not supported by the coalition partner, The Green Party.
Without the authority to change his cabinet, Brian Cowen resigned. It brought to an end of a political career that spanned over two decades.
Crisis - Inside The Cowen Government assess Brian Cowen’s tenure as Taoiseach, his legacy and asks can Fianna Fáil resurrect itself from its worst election result?
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Many thanks for re-uploading this! A shame we can’t get these interesting and eye-opening Irish political docs over here in the UK.
RTE do these documentaries better than most and far better than the BBC.
Thanks, lovely to have this in one piece.
I remember listening to that radio interview.. He was CLEARLY pissed.
I met him in a pub in the midlands when he was in power. A genuinely nice man and man of the people!
That's one side of the coin. the other is he was right there minister for finance in the government that allowed the damn banks to destroy the country! And he was there and part of the problem. So with time i suppose im nat as angry about it and i think if he'd had a run at it during better times he might have been a great Taoiseach. We'll never know i suppose
@@DAGATHireHe would never have been a good Taoiseach. He was only ever a TD because his father was one. He didn’t get into the Dáil on his own merit.
@@kennyryan625 i really don't think how they get there matters mate, just if they do a good job or not. and indeed if they are capable of doing a good job or not. I'm a fairly pragmatic person i don't poopoo anything out of hand without some consideration and where he is concerned, i think he would have been very capable indeed in other circumstances. The thing about the 2008 crash was everyone in every county blamed their own governments. Fair enough right? however the meltdown was truly global! it happened to bloody everyone. So people in general were very narrow minded. Blame them there the ones we can see in front of us. Never taking a step back to see the humongous big picture.
Bertie saw the writing on the wall. Why do you think he vanished just before the crash? He knew that Ireland had already reached the brink and nothing was going to change that. Everyone should of saw what we did in 06 at JSO Capital, that the house of cards was finished the roof had been put on and the addition of the chimney started the wobble that would bring the house down.
I think that after they removed stamp duty there was no salvaging the state from the economic downturn.
Odd question does anyone know who did the music for this doc? I find it absolutely captivating.
Bit late but Zoe Keating, spent ages trying to find it myself
@@paulmulready9059 no apology needed! That's great, thank you.
Ha Eamon Ryan adding in on it, this will be good to have in 2027
Great post - thanks :)
Brian Cowen was the worst Taoiseach in the history of the Irish State. He presided over the horrendous bank bailout of 2008, which cost the Irish people a whopping 64.1 billion euro. He was in charge when Ireland lost our economic and fiscal sovereignty in 2010 as part of the EU/IMF bailout. Also, he was a horribly incompetent Minister for Finance from 2004 to 2008, majorly increasing Government spending and treating the State's finances recklessly just before the 2008 crash happened. These are the facts. Furthermore, he was a poor Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Health in previous ministerial roles. Cowen was a catastrophically bad leader. History will remember him as the worst Taoiseach we ever had.
His entire political career was based on failing upwards……the Peter principle
@53:16 That’s right John. “This is Brian Cowen for ya”. Too stupid to make a savvy side-step by claiming he had a sore throat, and asking the Tanaiste Mary Coughlan to do the interview with RTE instead. If he just done that there would have been no drama with that interview.
A job in Europe is ALWAYS a demotion! Get 'em out of sight and out of mind! 🙂
Bertie knew the crash was coming. All his Advisors told him
That's why he ran off with his pension. Now he is an after Dinner speaker at 30 Grand a pop
Gormless Gormley and Calamity Coughlan.
The gormless, cluelss appearance of Mary Coughlan, sat beside Biffo, is not at all unlike that of a mountain goat staring into the wind.
Bertie only less then a year of 3rd term as Taoiseach.
Already become politics place..
31:43 the devil himself
Over an hr and a half, and SF not mentioned once.
I'm not a SF voter.
Last 5 minutes yacking on about FF resurrection, sure that's RTE for you.
In defense of Pat Leahy, I don't think the ending of the documentary is about a desire for a FF comeback, more so asking whether or not its possible, it cannot be understated how universally loathed they were at the time, if you read Leahys book Showtime he is highly critical of FFs time in government and their way of doing business
As for SF, they really weren't as relevant at the time, in terms of Dail seats they were maybe the fourth or fifth largest party? Impossible to predict the surge they're now experiencing with
@@gadai4609The SF surge didn’t last long 😂
Bertie the snivelling weasel slivered off into the undergrowth and left Brian hanging with his pants down ready to be fed to the dogs
Everything went wrong that could possibly go wrong when cowen was made taoiseach the poor man hadn't a clue..it was self destruction
He didn’t exactly help himself with his drunk media appearances, bad bank bailouts and unpopular ministerial reshuffles. He was just a shit Taoiseach. No previous Taoiseach in the more difficult times of the 1930s or World War 2 ever bankrupted the country.
One of the WORST ever.
The constant music is making this almost unwatchable.
Talk about being handed a poisoned chalice 😄
this pagan church can sing and song inside...of it...real Chris church won't give permission to do that ... want song and sing go outside.... church not for show....
Talk about a poisoned chalice .....
A poison chalice they filled themselves with their own piss
Eamon ryan is the most dangerous man i. Ireland
He’s completely harmless you tool
@@daireoreilly2548He’s very dangerous. He’s destroying our self-sufficiency in energy and making us dependent on imported electricity from Europe when we used to have our own elect generating plants that produced all our own electricity
You own, with your problem,..🥸...