What a difference a day makes. If the Berlin pub owner Jay Bourke was lining up to be the week’s top Covid villain, that honour was quickly snapped away by former agriculture minister Dara Calleary when news broke that he, and a number of establishment luminaries, had attended an 80-seater Oireachtas golfing dinner in Galway on Wednesday night. As the minister’s resignation landed early yesterday morning it was clear the heat had been dialled down several notches on Bourke, the urbane 54-year-old entrepreneur who made his name in the 1990s and 2000s brightening up Dublin’s nightlife with a roll call…

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