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Three Fianna Fail senators have party whip restored after controversial Golfgate Niall Blaney, Aidan Davitt and Paul Daly have all been reinstated (Image: Niall Carson/PA Wire) Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsu...

Political Coverage Editor Fine Gael had decided to re-admit three Senators who lost the party whip following their participation in the controversial Oireachtas Golf Society event in Cliften last August.  During a meeting of the parliamentary party Tánaiste Leo Varadkar proposed a motion that Senators Jerry Buttimer, John Cummins and Paddy Burke be readmitted. The event was criticised because participants breached Covid-19 rules which prohibited large gatherings.  The Fine Gael leader said: "They all acknowledged that what happened at the Oireachtas Golf event should not have happened, apo...

FINE Gael has readmitted three senators who were stripped of the party whip over their attendance at the infamous Oireachtas Golf Society in Clifden last August. Fine Gael's Jerry Buttimer, Paddy Burke and John Cummins were told today they are having the whip restored after they were, in effect, expelled from the parliamentary party last August. The decision was unanimously approved by the Fine Gael parliamentary party at a meeting this afternoon following a proposal by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar. Mr Varadkar told the meeting “nobody should be punished forever” and there was never a right tim...

Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, lost her seat. Photo: Frank McGrath There were a number of shock high-profile casualties, with Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty, chief whip Seán Kyne, Minister of State Michael D’Arcy as well as Kate O’Connell, Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy and Tom Neville all losing their seats. Former Transport Minister Shane Ross and Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers and Fiona O’Loughlin were also amongst those who lost out. Fianna Fáil did not do near as well as expected and finished with 38 seats, while Sinn Féin celebr...

Is this the first year we’ve really paid attention to the words of the Christmas songs we sing each year and noticed the one thing they all take for granted is togetherness?