Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, the Conservative manifesto clarified that the British Government would fund the hosting of the Commonwealth Games in the United Kingdom. It would be a perfect and wonderful opportunity to host them in Belfast, given that we are talking about cross-Border and all-island relations. Ireland would not rejoin the Commonwealth, but it would involve an association with the Commonwealth. Let us remember that Ireland was an active member of the Commonwealth until 1949 when it was a Fine Gael Taoiseach, John A. Costello, who took us out of it.