{"id":25785,"date":"2020-08-23T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=25785"},"modified":"2020-08-23T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:11:03","slug":"golfgate-overwhelms-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=25785","title":{"rendered":"GOLFgate Overwhelms Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>#Golfgate shows &#8216;dysfunction&#8217; of the Government, says Sinn F\u00e9in<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_25786\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25786\" class=\"wp-image-25786 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1931642_3_articlelarge_CC_20PALESTINIAN_20PROTEST_20_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1931642_3_articlelarge_CC_20PALESTINIAN_20PROTEST_20_10.jpg 600w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1931642_3_articlelarge_CC_20PALESTINIAN_20PROTEST_20_10-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sinn F\u00e9in TD David Cullinane says those who attended the function, including Phil Hogan, made a grave error. File picture: Collins<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>IRISH EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in has said the events of the last few days have shown the &#8220;chaos and dysfunction&#8221; of the Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin, T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar and Minister Eamon Ryan have agreed that the D\u00e1il should be recalled following the reopening of schools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1297425450441084928&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Farid-40036346.html&amp;siteScreenName=irishexaminer&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1297425450441084928\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Taoiseach will make this request to the Ceann Comhairle on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It follows calls from the Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste for the EU Commissioner Phil Hogan to consider his position, following his attendance at a golf dinner for 81 people in Clifden last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, a government spokesperson confirmed that: \u201cThe Taoiseach and the T\u00e1naiste did speak with Commissioner Hogan today and asked him to consider his position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They both believe that the event should never have been held, that the Commissioner\u2019s apology came late and that he still needs to give a full account and explanations of his actions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Martin and Mr Varadkar say his apology came late for attending an Oireachtas Golf Society event in Clifden, Co. Galway, which broke Covid-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>They say he still needs to give a full account and explanation of his actions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-incontent-1\"><\/div>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD David Cullinane says those who attended the function, including Phil Hogan, made a grave error.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cullinane said: &#8220;It was a huge mistake, so I think there was an inevitability about what has happened over the last number of days and what might happen and now the calls from the Taoiseach and the T\u00e1naiste.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows that again we have a government that is bogged down in controversy, chaos and dysfunction and it&#8217;s not what people need and not what this country needs at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/arid-40036346.html\">https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/arid-40036346.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Golfgate shows &#8216;dysfunction&#8217; of the Government, says Sinn F\u00e9in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}