Quick Facts
Biography
Aoife-Grace Moore is an Irish BBC journalist and political correspondent, from Derry. Based in the Republic of Ireland, she is best known for breaking the Oireachtas Golf Society scandal, "Golfgate", story with Paul Hosford for the Irish Examiner in 2020.
Background
A Derry native, Moore is the niece of Bloody Sunday victim Patrick Doherty. She is a graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University.
Career
Moore has worked for Press Association, and the Irish Examiner.
While working for the Examiner, Moore was the target of tweets as part of the Eoghan Harris Twitter scandal, and has been the subject of workplace sexual harassment.
She wrote a non-fiction book about Sinn Féin for Sandycove publishing. Upon its release in September 2023 it was described as having “nothing insightful to say” by the Irish Independent.
Golfgate
Una Mullally described Moore and Hosford's Golfgate coverage as the "scoop of the year", and they shared the NewsBrands Ireland "Journalist of the Year Award".