Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that people are prepared to put their heads above the parapet to state that there are two strands to our history.

A fortnight ago I was in Crossmaglen with the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly to conduct a survey on illicit smuggling. The GAA, the schools and the PSNI are doing a huge amount of work there as well, which should be welcomed. The GAA operates on a cross-community basis and does great work across the island. The GAA, along with politicians in all parties, have shown themselves to be leaders by ensuring that these little bits of co-operation move in the right direction. To me, they do so in order to have an agreed Ireland and to work between the island of Ireland and the UK and, indeed, Europe.