Cowen will not gamble career on vote result

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has refused to put his political career on the line, if the Lisbon treaty referendum fails next month.

He told voters “it is not about me, it is about the country”.

At the launch of his party’s referendum campaign in The Royal College of Physicians yesterday, he asked the public to put party political sniping aside and focus on getting a yes vote.