Mick Clifford: Golfgate Four sing up a storm

The 20 or 30 assembled guests in the residents' bar were “drinking, chatting, singing,” according to barman Anthony Curran

Pictured on the first day of the Golfgate trial were former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, Independent TD Noel Grealish and hoteliers John Sweeney and James Sweeney. So far, all the witnesses for the prosecution have given evidence that would appear to dispute the basis for the prosecution’s case.

What songs were sung by the golfgate luminaries in the wee, small hours? The question arises from evidence tendered on the second day of the trial of four men in connection with the most infamous feed during these Covid times. 

There is no suggestion that the any of the Golfgate Four were in fine voice that night, but somebody was apparently belting out a ditty in the residents' bar of the Station House Hotel in the aftermath of the Oireachtas Golfing Society’s annual shindig on 19 August, 2020.