Aoife Moore

Aoife-Grace Moore is an Irish BBC journalist and political correspondent, from Derry, Northern Ireland. 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 "'The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin" for Sandycove publishing and Penguin in the United Kingdom. Upon its release in September 2023 it was described as having “nothing insightful to say” by the Irish Independent. Conversely, the English newspaper The Guardian described the book as both "fascinating" and "insightful" and named it book of the day on 15 September 2023.

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".

Mo Mowlam
In April 2023 Moore appeared on the Late Late Show and said she "would not rest" until British politician Mo Mowlam's contribution to the Good Friday Agreement was more widely acknowledged.