The Daily PollTAOISEACH BRIAN COWEN is coming under intense pressure to give further details of his meetings and discussions with Sean Fitzpatrick in the run-up to the September 2008 bank guarantee scheme.
A spokesman for Cowen yesterday confirmed that the July meetings, where the two played golf and had dinner, had taken place – but said they were social occasions, and the affairs of Anglo were not discussed.
Fitzpatrick also revealed he spoke to Cowen, then-Finance Minister, in March over concerns about Seán Quinn’s Anglo shares and the falling price of the bank’s shares. Cowen had not informed other ministers of the St Patrick’s Day phone call because “there was no reason to inform other ministers, because the Taoiseach did what was required. He informed the Governor of the Central Bank of the content of the phone call,” his spokesman has said.
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