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Four people, including two politicians, expected to be charged over allegedly organising infamous Golfgate dinner Updated: 17 Feb 2021, 18:54 FOUR people, including two politicians, who allegedly organised the infamous Golgate dinner last year are expected to be charged with breaches of Covid-19 regulations. The prosecutions are understood to include Galway West independent TD Noel Grealish, then-captain of Oireachtas Golf Society, and its president ex-Fianna Fail TD Donie Cassidy. 3 3 The bash took place at the Station House Hotel in Clifden, Co GalwayCredit: PA:Press Association Gardai laun...

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...