Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary said he knew from "early on" that he needed to resign from his ministerial role following the controversy over an Oireachtas golf society dinner in Clifden last summer.
He also said that he had made a "stupid, stupid, mistake ... a major mistake" in attending the event. Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Philip Boucher Hayes he said not resigning would have meant not acknowledging the seriousness of the mistake made and the hurt and anger caused. "I shouldn't have been there and I just want to emphasise even now, six months on, that there is still a lot of hurt and anger." The former Agriculture Minister said both he and Taoiseach Micheál Martin came to a mutual decision on his resignation following the dinner. "We