The Bailout

The chaos of late 2008 is recreated in this two-part drama adapted by Colin Murphy from his own play. Declan Conlon plays Brian Lenihan, and Denis Conway is Brian Cowen, two men caught in the crosshairs of one of the biggest political crises in the history of the State. As Cowen, Bertie Ahern's sometimes taciturn chosen successor, and Lenihan, a talented politician who'd been sidelined by Ahern, struggle with the sheer scale of the problem that confronts them, The Bailout leaves us in no doubt…