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Cowen: Mistakes made with bank guarantee

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has accepted that mistakes were made in the handling of the controversial bank guarantee of 2008.

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Earlier this week, Mr Cowen was summoned to give evidence at the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry.

He's denied that he overruled the then Finance Minister Brian Lenihan in relation to the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide in 2008.

During an event in Killarney last night, Mr Cowen said the goverment of the time acted to the best of their ability with the information available to them

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