Ex-Irish PM Cowen defends policies in banking inquiry blame game


  • World
  • Thursday, 02 Jul 2015

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Brian Cowen robustly defended policies he put in place ahead of Ireland's financial crisis, accepting responsibility for the consequences but following others in spreading blame at a parliamentary inquiry.

Irish lawmakers are questioning former bank executives, government ministers and officials as part of an inquiry into the country's banking crisis, seven years after it took hold and led to the most expensive state bailout in the euro zone.

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