'Drinking, chatting and singing' after Golfgate, remembers barman

A former barman also said up to 30 members of the Oireachtas Golf Society retired to the resident’s bar "standing around, drinking, chatting and singing".
'Drinking, chatting and singing' after Golfgate, remembers barman

Supreme Court Judge Seamus Woulfe said he  "had a hazy, broad knowledge of the guidelines" and looked at them online after the dinner.” Photo: Collins

Judge of the Supreme Court, Séamus Woulfe SC, took the witness box this morning for the second day of the ‘Golfgate’ hearing in Galway.

Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, along with hoteliers John Sweeney and James Sweeney, each deny they organised an Oireachtas Golf Society event at the Station House Hotel in Clifden during pandemic restrictions on August 19, 2020.

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