Minister for Agriculture attends 81-person golf event in breach of health guidelines

Strawberry Milkshake

In case some of these are reading this thread. You haven’t been forgotten about.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Table One (6 people)
Noel Grealish
Dara & Siobhan Calleary
Phil Hogan
Noel & Bernadette Dempsey

Table Two (8 people)
Donnie Cassidy & guests

Table Three (unknown number)
Ann Killiea & family
D Bruton
Frank Fahey
Bernie O’Grady
Margaret Mulholland

Table 4 (8 people)
Paul Coughlan
Tony Walsh
Senator Paddy Burke
John Flaherty
Rob McAuliffe
Enda McGloin
Sean O’Rourke
Dr Michael Harty

Table 5 (8 people)
Judge Seamus Woulfe
Lorraine Higgins
Ambassador of Morocco
Senator Paul & Bernie Daly
Maura O’Connor
John & Treena Sweeney

Table 6 (9 people)
Brian Hayes +3
Imelda Henry
Cait Hayes
Patricia McGrath
Gerry Reynolds
Cait Keane

Table 7 (10 people)
Senator Aiden & Mrs Davitt
John Shaw
Michael Kennedy
Eamonn Lynch
Senator Niall Blaney
Andrew & Mary Dowdell
Mr & Mrs Conor Curran

Table 8 (8 people)
Senator Gerry Buttimar & Conchobar
Senator John Cummins
Kevin Curran
Michael McQuaid
Paudge Connolly
Pat & Kevin McCartan

Table 9 (10 people)
Gerry & Aine Brady x10

Table 10 (unknown)
Aine & Ciaran Dooley
Martin Brett
Gerry Crowley
Loman & Sean Dempsey
*the photo misses the end of list*

ChikiChiki

I suspect ultimately this will end up as having been approved to go ahead by Martin and/or Leo.

All measures taken to date were damage limitation exercises that have failed to quell the flames.

stockshares

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

In case some of these are reading this thread. You haven’t been forgotten about.

Grealish is keeping his head down but Cassidy has gone so I'd imagine he will too. Noel Dempsey has hardly been mentioned but he's not in Office anymore so there's bigger fish to fry.

I wonder were Gerry and Áine Brady's crew all from Kildare?

WoollyRedHat

That's it, the government knew about it, they're done, Green Party should leave the government tonight and go to opposition benches.

stockshares

stockshares wrote: »

Grealish is keeping his head down but Cassidy has gone so I'd imagine he will too.

I wonder were Gerry and Áine Brady's crew all from Kildare?

It’s a long list. I’m sure there teams of reporters looking into all of them. Phil is the biggest story and the rest just have to wait their turn.

stockshares

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It’s a long list. I’m sure there teams of reporters looking into all of them. Phil is the biggest story and the rest just have to wait their turn.

Table 1 is cursed. I wonder what the matchups are based on, golfing ability or other?

expectationlost

stockshares wrote: »

Grealish is keeping his head down but Cassidy has gone so I'd imagine he will too.

I wonder were Gerry and Áine Brady's crew all from Kildare?

nobody actually resigned from their job yet. Calleary is still a TD



Noel Grealish won't resign, don't think he has any extra positions to resign from.



its been suggested Aine Brady lives in Meath now near to the ThirdAge organsation she runs.

drunkmonkey

s1ippy wrote: »

https://twitter.com/patphelan/status/1297638660968452096?s=20

Micheal sponsored a prize at the event, but FF are insisting that they had no idea it was bold.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1297642634962444288?s=20

Would they all not ever just do the honourable thing and shuffle off into irrelevance.

You couldn't make it up....Michael is in a tricky position now.

Mary Lou to be Taoiseach soon....

Seamai

stockshares wrote: »

Table 1 is cursed.

Table of Doom.

Sir Oxman

To be honest, wouldn't surpise me


https://twitter.com/HarryDuggan1925/status/1297628924348964864?s=20

Gerry Hatrick

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

That's it, the government knew about it, they're done, Green Party should leave the government tonight and go to opposition benches.

They've been toast since the story broke.

WoollyRedHat

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

They've been toast since the story broke.

They're burnt toast now though.

stockshares

expectationlost wrote: »

nobody actually resigned from their job yet. Calleary is still a TD



Noel Grealish won't resign, don't think he has any extra positions to resign from.



its been suggested Aine Brady lives in Meath now near to the ThirdAge organisation he runs.

I know nothing about Áine Brady apart from what I learned during this scandal.

Apparently she works for a group representing senior citizens and yet it didn't bother her to go to an event during a pandemic, breaking lockdown guidelines designed to protect those people as well as others.

She also brought a party of ten to it going by the table arrangements. No one shouted stop.

gifted

Gerry Hatrick wrote: »

They've been toast since the story broke.

They'll still be there this time next week.....rte will deal with it tomorrow but then it will start to die off out of the news......a few phone calls will be made to producers to take it easy or else...

ShamNNspace

stockshares wrote: »

I know nothing about Áine Brady apart from what I learned during this scandal.

Apparently she works for a group representing senior citizens and yet it didn't bother her to go to an event during a pandemic, breaking lockdown guidelines designed to protect those people as well as others.

She also brought a party of ten to it going by the table arrangements. No one shouted stop.

Shes one of the Kitts, ff royalty in Galway going back to the WOI, at one stage there were 3 Kitts in the Dail I believe

caveat emptor

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

That's it, the government knew about it, they're done, Green Party should leave the government tonight and go to opposition benches.

Just before the schools open up. It looks like they are jumping out of government before that **** show. A game of golf isn't going to look like much this time next month. They'll all be jumping ship next week.

https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1297622768201207808?s=20

ExMachina1000

They made us vote twice in the Lisbon treaty

Phoebas

caveat emptor wrote: »

They'll all be jumping ship next week.

The GP aren't leaving government over this.

A bit of perspective is needed here.

DeanAustin

drunkmonkey wrote: »

You couldn't make it up....Michael is in a tricky position now.

Mary Lou to be Taoiseach soon....

No he isn’t. He didn’t sponsor a prize, the party did. And they can plausibly claim that they sponsored a prize for a golf competition. The game of golf isn’t the issue here, it’s the dinner afterwards that’s caused the problems.

elperello

TBH you'd like to think that the office wouldn't be bothering the Taoiseach about donating an €80 prize.

McMurphy

DeanAustin wrote: »

No he isn’t. He didn’t sponsor a prize, the party did. And they can plausibly claim that they sponsored a prize for a golf competition. The game of golf isn’t the issue here, it’s the dinner afterwards that’s caused the problems.

Imagine if there's any invites floating around that state someone is officially invited to the golf outing....... And dinner afterwards.

DeanAustin

McMurphy wrote: »

Imagine if there's any invites floating around that state someone is officially invited to the golf outing....... And dinner afterwards.

Leo was asked today if he was invited. He was very careful to say “I could have been but I haven’t been around so my staff would probably have declined on my behalf if there was an invitation.”

He was quizzed on whether his staff are then culpable if they got the invite and didn’t flag it with him. He was quite emphatic that it isn’t their job to ensure that the event is Covid compliant.

He made a decent argument to be fair.

Gerry Hatrick

gifted wrote: »

They'll still be there this time next week.....rte will deal with it tomorrow but then it will start to die off out of the news......a few phone calls will be made to producers to take it easy or else...

RTE have been left behind by social media. They don't control the narrative anymore.

stockshares

DeanAustin wrote: »

Leo was asked today if he was invited. He was very careful to say “I could have been but I haven’t been around so my staff would probably have declined on my behalf if there was an invitation.”

He was quizzed on whether his staff are then culpable if they got the invite and didn’t flag it with him. He was quite emphatic that it isn’t their job to ensure that the event is Covid compliant.

He made a decent argument to be fair.

He's a good speaker and if you listen to him long enough youl think he's right and agree with him.

You have to remember he's very calculating and doesn't say something for nothing.

Hawthorn Tree

https://twitter.com/davidcochrane/status/1297635735986745349

:D:D

I have no doubt MM knew all about the event. He was probably invited.

DeanAustin

stockshares wrote: »

He's a good speaker and if you listen to him long enough youl think he's right and agree with him.

You have to remember he's very calculating and doesn't say something for nothing.

I’ve no allegiance to FG but I do quite like Leo. It was fairly obvious today that he knew something about Hogan’s movements with the amount of times he said they had to be publicly accounted for.

However, on the invite question, that conversation was initiated by RTE and he struck me as a man just covering his arse coz he really wasn’t sure if he’d been invited. His point stands up though.

expectationlost

Hawthorn Tree wrote: »

https://twitter.com/davidcochrane/status/1297635735986745349

:D:D

I have no doubt MM knew all about the event. He was probably invited.

Leo said he may well have been invited 2 but it would have been refused by his staff...

Hawthorn Tree

Hawthorn Tree wrote: »

https://twitter.com/davidcochrane/status/1297635735986745349

:D:D

I have no doubt MM knew all about the event. He was probably invited.

I don’t think he should be accountable for anyone else’s actions though.

There probably were email invitations to more people than attended. They didn’t go so did nothing wrong imo.

billybonkers

Would like to see the member list of the entire golf society to know who in government knew about this event

expectationlost

where was the gold actually played in Galway?