Green Party's simmering discontent over Golfgate

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said the Clifden event should not have happened.

Reaction from the third party of government to the seismic meeting of the 81-strong Oireachtas Golf Society in Co Galway has ranged from the muted to the incredulous to the furious.

Officially, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who leads his 12-TD-strong contingent in government, said that the much-maligned event at the Clifden Station House Hotel “should not have taken place”. Of the ousted Minister for Agriculture, Dara Calleary, whose attendance at the event precipitated his resignation after just 37 days, Mr Ryan said “he made a mistake, he apologised and now he has resigned”.