Mr Calleary confirmed he attended the dinner organised by the Oireachtas Golf Society to mark its 50th anniversary in the Station House Hotel, Clifden, Co Galway. The dinner followed a two-day golf tournament for the society captain’s and president’s prizes which took place at the nearby Connemara Golf Club. A number of current and former Oireachtas members participated in the golf tournament.
The dinner had between 60 to 80 attendees split across a partitioned function room at the hotel. The function was organised by the society’s president, former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, with the event honouring the late former Fianna Fáil MEP Mark Killilea.
It’s just become an awful symbol of how much economic damage this thing has done. The place should be absolutely full at the moment, with tourists aching to spend money, Irish people travelling abroad, businessmen and women coming and going and it’s all stopped.
I’ve already said it more tongue in cheek than anything but I’ll say it again. They would have been better off if they shut the whole fucking country down for a month again.