A spokesperson for Phil Hogan has said the EU Commissioner travelled "briefly" to Kildare before going to Clifden to attend the Oireachtas Golf Society event earlier this week. For more on this we were joined by Darren McCaffrey, Euronews Political Correspondent.

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