Fergus Finlay: Nobody wants an election to fix this shambles

The people who attended that dinner were there because they didn’t care. They’re a disgrace, the bloody lot of them

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has provided his full report on the controversial Oireachtas Golf Society dinner, and his possible violation of Covid-19 restrictions, to the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The Government will now await Ms von der Leyen’s judgment on the report. Picture: Arthur Carron/Collins

Two things are abundantly clear after Clifden. First, the people who attended that dinner were not there because they didn’t know. They were there because they didn’t care.

Even their apologies sound smug — a sort of aristocratic noblesse oblige, where the entitled recognise that the ordinary folk might be a bit upset. They’re an absolute disgrace, the whole bloody lot of them.