Golfgate: Anatomy of a Scoop
18 August - 25 minsFive years ago this summer, Ireland was just five months into the Covid-19 crisis. Daily case numbers were climbing again, new restrictions had just been announced, and the country was under pressure to curb social contact. Weddings were shrinking, GAA matches were being played in empty stadiums, and pubs without food remained shut. Against this backdrop, more than eighty people gathered in the Station House Hotel in Clifden for a dinner of the Oireachtas Golf Society. The fallout from that evening would become one of the most politically explosive stories of the pandemic: Golfgate.
In this first podcast of a special two-part Newstalk Daily series, Sean Defoe is joined by the journalists w...
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