Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (right) and Irish President Mary McAleese (second from left) arrive at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the Irish president, in Dublin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to sign a request for a Proclamation of Dissolution of the Irish parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen, left, announces his resignation as leader of Ireland's dominant Fianna Fail party on Saturday, Jan, 22, 2011, in Dublin. Cowen announced Saturday that he has resigned as leader of Ireland's dominant Fianna Fail party but intends to keep leading the government through the March 11 election. Opposition chiefs demanded his immediate ouster as premier. (AP Photo/Julien Behal/PA Wire)
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen waves to photographers after winning a crucial vote of confidence by his party at Government Buildings, in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. (AP Photo / Peter Morrison)
** FILE ** Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen speaks during a media conference at a European Union summit in Brussels on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen speaks to the media in Dublin on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, on the European Union's $113 billion bailout deal to help debt-struck Ireland with its banking crisis.
A woman clears debris from the office of Ireland's Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey TD of the Fianna Fail party that was vandalized and painted with the words 'traitors' in the village of Trim, 30 miles north west of Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Lawmakers in Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's own party mounted a rebellion Tuesday to try to oust him, an effort that could trigger a snap election and delay a massive EU-IMF bailout of Ireland. At stake is the future course of the potentially Euro100 billion ($135 billion) European Union and International Monetary Fund rescue of Ireland, a nation heading toward bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Workmen repair the office of Ireland's Transport Minister Noel Dempsey after it was was vandalised and painted with the words: 'traitors' in the village of Trim, 30 miles north west of Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Lawmakers in Prime Minister Brian Cowen's own party mounted a rebellion Tuesday to try to oust him, an effort that could trigger a snap election and delay a massive EU-IMF bailout of Ireland. Dempsey is one of Cowen's loyal lieutenants. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Irish police officers remove Sinn Fein protesters from inside the gates of government buildings in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. The Sinn Fein protesters are calling for the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to resign over the unfolding financial crisis. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, left, and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan speak to the media at the government building in Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Debt-crippled Ireland formally applied Sunday for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks, joining Greece in a step unthinkable only a few years ago when Ireland was a booming Celtic Tiger and the economic envy of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
