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Cowen to face rebel backbenchers

 

Clare Fianna Fail backbencher Timmy Dooley believes that the majority of backbenchers will support the Taoiseach at today’s Parliamentary party meeting.

Brian Cowen will have to face down rebel party members who are calling for him to resign as leader of Fianna Fail.

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Last might the Taoiseach laid out a timetable for an election – he’d call it in the New Year after the budget is fully enshrined in law.

That may delay it further than the Greens want, but Brian Cowen says for the sake of the country the budget must be passed:

While he doesn’t see Brian Cowen leading Fianna Fail after the next election Clare Fianna Fail TD Timmy Dooley feels that party members will back him through the budget

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