A NEW EXTREME right-wing party due to launch in Dublin today has confirmed the cancellation of its event at the Merrion Hotel.

In a statement, the National Party said the ‘forced cancellation’ was “entirely beyond our control” as the hotel had decided to cancel the booking of its Fitzgerald Suite.

It described the hotel’s decision as “frankly inexplicable”. The launch had been scheduled to take place at 3pm today, but after the hotel was made aware of the nature of the event, it cancelled the booking.

“The event is not taking place tomorrow, that is all we can say,” a hotel spokesperson told TheJournal.ie.

The party said it will now make its president, Justin Barrett, a Tipperary man formerly of action groups Youth Defence and the Mother and Child Campaign, available for individual press interviews instead.

Very little is known about the new party, which registered with the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) as a Third Party on 9 August of this year.

In an earlier statement announcing the event, the party had said: