Aoife Moore
Aoife-Grace Moore is an Irish citizen and independent journalist who formerly worked for the BBC as a political correspondent. She is from Derry, Northern Ireland and is based in the Republic of Ireland where she and Paul Hosford, broke the COVID-19 related story, known as "Golfgate" i.e., Oireachtas Golf Society political scandal and published in the Irish Examiner in 2020, which led to several high-profile resignations.
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 the BBC, Press Association, and the Irish Examiner. Since leaving the BBC, to work independently, she appeared on their 2 October 2025 edition of Question Time hosted in Belfast. The panel included Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn MP.While working for the Irish Examiner, Moore was the target of tweets as part of the Eoghan Harris Twitter scandal, and has been the subject of workplace sexual harassment. In 2025, she stated she was "the victim of online abuse on Tattle Life, with entirely untrue gossip spread about her personal and professional life."
She wrote a bestselling 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 "a compelling and revealing account of modern Sinn Féin, which sets out in considerable detail the inner workings of the party, its dynamics, and its power games" by The Irish Times. Furthermore, the English newspaper The Guardian described the book as both "fascinating" and "insightful" and named it book of the day on 15 September 2023.