State papers: RTÉ film crew member told US tourists to f*** off

Complaints were made to the Department of Foreign Affairs and RTÉ after a US-based couple on holiday were told to “f*** off” by a film crew member while walking on the promenade at Salthill in Galway in 1978, State papers reveal. Picture: Michael Deligan

Complaints were made to the Department of Foreign Affairs and RTÉ after a US-based couple on holiday were told to “f*** off” by a film crew member while walking on the promenade at Salthill in Galway in 1978, State papers reveal.

Galway resident Frank Curran wrote to the minister for foreign affairs, Michael O’Kennedy and RTÉ’s director general George Waters about the incident involving his daughter, Frankie, and her American husband, William Curtin.