Gormley bemoans ‘Golf Gate’ crisis

A FRUSTRATED Green Party have bemoaned the overshadowing of yet another of its pre-Dáil return gatherings by a controversy whipped up by a social outing of Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

Before the Dáil resumed last autumn, the party’s think-in in Carlow was dominated by the Taoiseach’s entertaining of his colleagues at a Fianna Fáil meeting in Galway.

And, yesterday, the latest think-in at Malahide was hijacked by revelations Mr Cowen had two previously undisclosed contacts with the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.