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Article: Cowen has good reason to mind those closest to him Fianna Fail's seemingly bloodless coup masked a very real push to get rid of Bertie Ahern, writes Brendan O'Connor.
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2008
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Cowen has good reason to mind those closest to him
Fianna Fail's seemingly bloodless coup masked a very real push to get rid of Bertie Ahern, writes Brendan O'Connor
One of the great mysteries of Brian Cowen's Government is why the anti-Bertie media was so concerned about the promotional prospects of one Peter Power, a TD from Limerick. In the Dail largely courtesy of Willie O'Dea's transfers, to the officious bystander Peter Power would not have seemed the obvious choice for elevation in a reshuffle, but his was a name that seemed to come up wherever political journalists gathered to talk about promotions.
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