Barman served up to 30 members of Oireachtas Golf Society party in residents’ bar

Court hears group were ‘drinking, chatting and singing’ until 2.30am

Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, along with hoteliers John Sweeney and James Sweeney, are each facing a summons related to organising an Oireachtas Golf Society event at the Station House Hotel in Clifden during pandemic restrictions on August 19, 2020. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Supreme Court Judge Séamus Woulfe today gave evidence of the circumstances surrounding his attendance at the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner which he said, in his opinion, was fully Covid-compliant with the regulations in place at the time.

It came at the end of two days of evidence at a special sitting of Galway District Court, involving former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, and Galway East Independent TD Noel Grealish who, along with hoteliers John Sweeney ...