Phil Hogan secures job as Government affairs adviser with global law firm

The former EU Trade Commissioner resigned his role last year after he was revealed to be among 80 people to attend the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner

Phil Hogan, the former EU Trade Commissioner, who has joined US law firm DLA Piper. File picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan will join a global law firm as a government affairs adviser.

Mr Hogan resigned from his job as EU trade commissioner amid controversy last summer when the Irish Examiner revealed he was among 80 people who attended the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in Clifden, Co Galway.