Barry Cowen sacking: What really happened behind the scenes

Sacked Minister for Agriculture Barry Cowen with Taoiseach Micheál Martin after first being appointed. Picture:RollingNews.ie

On Tuesday morning, after a lengthy discussion the night before between them, Barry Cowen presented the Garda file on his 2016 drink driving incident to his party leader, Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

On viewing the file, Mr Martin’s view was that it was not clear cut that Mr Cowen sought to evade a checkpoint, as suggested by the Sunday Times story.