Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Outgoing Irish PM Brian Cowen gets general election campaign under way

Enda Kenny of Fine Gael (right) meets Jose Manuel Barroso, EC president, ahead of a meeting in Brussels last week. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/ReutersIreland's general election campaign was officially launched this afternoon after the outgoing prime minister, Brian Cowen, sought permission from the Irish president to dissolve the Dáil.As Cowen met Mary McAleese in Dublin at her residency, in Phoenix Park, the man most likely to succeed him as taoiseach vowed to seek a renegotiation

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