No decision yet on any Garda objection to Golfgate hotel's drinks licence

The Station House Hotel in Clifden, Co Galway. Picture: Hany Marzouk/PA Wire

Gardaí will not object to the renewal of the drinks licence of the controversial Co Galway hotel at the centre of the Golfgate scandal unless its criminal investigation into the business finds that it breached Covid-19 laws on the organising of events.

Garda sources have suggested that no position will be formed regarding the hotel licence — due for renewal on September 30 — of the Station House Hotel in Clifden, Co Galway, which hosted the infamous 80-person Oireachtas Golf Society dinner last month, until the investigation is completed.