Cowen ends as he began: Late and defensive

THE foreign press swirled around the wounded prey — they scented Brian Cowen’s political blood.

The knife-edge opinion polls had sliced through European capitals and urgently put the continent’s media on major story alert.

The star BBC reporter was perfect in his delivery, but they still taped it three times as they wanted Brian Cowen walking past as the words “failure”, “chaos” and “tailspin” were boomed out next to him.