Scrambling to get out of the rough with a strategic game of golf

IT must be hard to score a hole in one when one’s in a hole – but can’t stop digging.

Step forward Seanad leader Donie Cassidy, hacking away in the rough as he defended the Oireachtas Golfing Society’s tour of sun-kissed Turkey.

Sorry, we mean the solemnly important – and all-expenses-paid – visit of Irish parliamentarians to mark the 90th anniversary of the Turkish National Assembly.