Aoife Moore: Our three-headed Government is still tone-deaf after Golfgate

From Golfgate to the Zappone debacle, and the many mishaps in between, this Government has consistently shown that it fails to gauge the public mood, and the hurt and anger caused by its blunders

Katherine Zappone was to be given a plum job in the UN that the Government claimed no one else would have wanted — 'a 13 or 15 grand role' that would apparently be considered small change to those who appointed her. Zappone later announced she would not be taking up the position.

A year after Golfgate, what’s changed?

Everything and absolutely nothing. Last summer, we were on the crest of another wave of Covid-19. The pandemic that had ravaged our mental and physical health showed no signs of abating and we were warned it could be years before a vaccine became available.