Royal approval in the Kingdom

MINISTER of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin, said he will make it his business to ensure Kerry is at the top of any list of destinations should William and Kate visit Ireland. It’s expected that a visit from the trendy royal couple will happen sooner rather than later and Minister Griffin believes Kerry is a natural choice.

“It’s something I’m very supportive of and would like to see happening as Kerry would be a fitting place for William and Kate to visit. As a tourism minister, it’s obviously something that I would support. It would also be fitting given the link with Queen Victoria and her visit to Killarney. This would certainly be relevant to any royal visit,” Minister Griffin said.

Minister Griffin believes such a visit would present Kerry to a whole new generation in the UK.

“In terms of the spin-off benefits for us, there is a new demographic in the UK now who are huge followers of William and Kate and for whom Ireland would not have be on the agenda. Such a trip might put us on the agenda with a whole new generation of tourists to Kerry, and indeed Ireland.”

Mnister Griffin also linked Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s somewhat effervescent start to his new role with the less stringent way in which William and Kate currently represent the Windsor family’s persona.

“We’ve just had a new change of leadership here in this country and William and Kate, in many ways, have come to symbolise the new change in the United Kingdom. For this reason it would be fitting to enhance relations between both generations,” he concluded.