Taoiseach trying to ‘whitewash the past’
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said Mr Cowen was piling “insult on injury” by attempting to “rewrite the history” of the past decade.
In a lengthy defence of his record last week, Mr Cowen insisted said he took a number of actions as finance minister to cool the property boom, and that the subsequent crash would have been “far worse” if it hadn’t been for such decisions.
