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State Papers
'Sex aids' being imported to Ireland in 1992 had officials abuzz with questions
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'Reproductive fascism': Read the letters calling on Mary Robinson to intervene in X Case
Many people, from Ireland and abroad, contacted the president about the controversial case in 1992.
The X Case centred on a 14-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped
The letters to Robinson highlight how divisise the issue was in Ireland and abroad
'It is with disbelief and disgust that we heard about the young girl who has been forbidden to leave Ireland'
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British officials 'perplexed' by exclusion of Garda McCabe's killers from GFA early release plans
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Princess Diana referred to NI as part of the Republic, according to Irish ambassador's note
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Sinn Féin
SF should move away from violent links to stop attracting 'head bangers', Adams agreed in 2001
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Jackie Kennedy rang Irish Embassy to ensure Defence Forces would play role in JFK's funeral
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Govt heard of British collusion in murder of man wrongly identified as IRA mole 'Stakeknife'
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Ireland considered making 21 age of consent for gay people when decriminalising homosexuality
One 1993 document noted that moving from “criminalisation to equality might be too major a change at one go”.
The age of consent for heterosexual intercourse at the time was, and still is, 17 years old
21 was described as "probably the age most acceptable to those who do not want decriminalisation but recognise that there is no choice"
However, if 21 was chosen, "there would be an attempt to portray this country as backward", officials warned
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State Papers 1999: Mo Mowlam told Alec Reid she was 'f****d' if paramilitary killings continued
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When Bertie met Paisley: Attacks on Presbyterian churches led to meeting between two leaders
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Young Boris Johnson argued for 'hard egg' approach to dealing with the IRA after Canary Wharf
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Tony Blair told John Bruton 25 years ago that British people feared 'losing control' to the EU
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FW de Klerk told Haughey that lifting fruit & veg ban would help 'mainly Black' South Africans
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1992
Tony O'Reilly offered newly widowed Robert Mugabe a stay in his estate and a lend of his jet
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Dec 28th 2022, 12:00 PM
Drumcree 1998
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Dec 28th 2022, 8:00 AM
State Papers
Report into Aidan McAnespie shooting found it ‘difficult to accept’ soldier’s claims
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Dec 28th 2022, 7:31 AM
THE MORNING LEAD
Ahern sought rubber bullet ban to put pressure on UK to restrict their use in Northern Ireland
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Dec 28th 2022, 12:02 AM
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The secret story of the Princess of Prussia's family jewels being stolen at gunpoint in Dalkey
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Real IRA not ‘overly active’, Ahern told Blair two weeks before Omagh bomb
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How Bill Clinton's Kerry statue owes its roots to a visit by Dick Spring to Martha's Vineyard
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Never Forget
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The Troubles
Decommissioning demands during first IRA ceasefire ‘were pointless’
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1997 state papers
Republicans in the Maze allowed IRA prisoners build an escape tunnel 'as occupational therapy'
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hunting expedition
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