Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I was on a Good Friday Agreement tour to Capitol Hill last week with the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, Deputy Crowe. We raised many issues regarding the agreement. We wanted to thank the US people and political establishment for the work they did on the Good Friday Agreement. After 20 years, we wanted to renew the agreement. Many issues were raised, such as the undocumented Irish and looking for answers to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, on which we feel there are not enough answers. There is one aspect which I feel we have allowed to happen. Last weekend in Donegal, a hotel was going to have a function to celebrate the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but it cannot now do so because thugs who call themselves republicans rang up and intimidated the hotel in order to stop the function going ahead. What would happen if someone had a pub in London that was going to air the presidential inauguration and somebody rang in to stop that? There would be hell to pay. We have a different view and nobody has said anything. The only person whom I have heard say something is a DUP councillor in the North of Ireland. It is a two-way street here. How can people ring a hotel in our Twenty-six Counties and get an event at which people were going to go to watch the royal wedding cancelled? I will not be watching the royal wedding but many people out there will. It is people's right to watch the wedding in the same way as it is their right to watch anything. In case anybody asks, I was not invited to the royal wedding.