FILE PHOTO: European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan holds a news conference on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020, in Brussels, Belgium June 1, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's prime minister and deputy minister asked European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan, Ireland's representative on the EU's executive, to consider his position over his attendance at an event being investigated for breaching COVID-19 regulations.
An Irish minister resigned and a number of other lawmakers were disciplined on Friday after they were among more than 80 guests at a hotel dinner hosted by parliament's golf society, the night after COVID-19 restrictions were significantly tightened.
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