Cowen and the party he personifies

I AGREE with Harry McGee that Finance Minister Brian Cowen personifies the heart and soul of his party and what it stands for (Irish Examiner, September 29).

That is exactly the problem with Fianna Fáil. Here we have the anointed one standing by a cock-and-bull story (to quote Eamon Gilmore) regarding the Taoiseach’s tribunal evidence.

We had Bertie Ahern signing blank cheques for the Boss, castigating the opposition for bringing down an honourable man in Ray Burke, for whom he climbed every tree and failed to find the slightest trace of wrongdoing and, in more recent times, inviting Beverley Flynn back into the fold with the promise of a ministry, etc, etc.