Seamus Woulfe
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Stephen Collins: Coalition appeased lynch mob over Hogan
- Opinion
- August 28, 2020, 01:00
A spineless Government running scared in the face of an hysterical media has done serious damage to the national interest by forcing the resignation o(...)

Golf dinner fallout: We are entitled to expect high standards from our judges
- Opinion
- August 25, 2020, 05:00
A good deal of the law regarding the discipline of higher court judges is a long way out of date. In fact it goes back, to the Act of Settlement 1701,(...)

Timeline: How Phil Hogan became the centre of the golf dinner controversy
- Politics
- August 24, 2020, 15:57
EU commissioner Phil Hogan has been at the centre of a major political controversy, as one of several high-profile politicians who attended an Oireach(...)

Golf dinner fallout: Hogan’s fate hangs in balance as EC chief awaits ‘full report’
- Politics
- August 24, 2020, 01:03
Phil Hogan’s fate as European Commissioner hangs in the balance as the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, awaits his “full report” on(...)

Coalition's Phil Hogan dilemma: should he stay or should he go?
- Politics
- August 23, 2020, 15:17
The Government faces a huge decision on the future of European Commissioner Phil Hogan: does it seek to have him fired, or does it prefer that, on bal(...)

Dáil to be recalled early in wake of golf dinner controversy
- Politics
- August 23, 2020, 00:01
The Government has agreed to recall the Dáil in the wake of the controversy over the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner and criticism by the opposition of(...)

There is ‘justifiable and understandable anger’ but virus ‘couldn’t care less’ - Glynn
- Politics
- August 21, 2020, 18:57
The Oireachtas golf society dinner in Clifden was “wrong”, “inexcusable” and “simply shouldn’t have happened,” the Minister for Health Stephen Donnell(...)

Golf dinner fallout: Controversy compromises key public health messages – Taoiseach
- Politics
- August 21, 2020, 08:47
A major political crisis has erupted over a dinner held by the Oireachtas Golf Society that has led to the resignations of the Minister for Agricultur(...)

Palestinian rights group questions AG advice on Occupied Territories Bill
- Politics
- June 13, 2020, 01:00
The Government’s opposition to the Occupied Territories Bill is based on legal advice from the Attorney General which does not take important case law(...)

Any decision to further tighten restrictions on the movement of people to deal with the coronavirus crisis will be taken on foot of medical advice and(...)