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# 1985

All time
Aran sweaters, Avoca rugs and Waterford Crystal Statue of Liberty: Gifts Taoiseach gave Ronald Reagan
1986: The levels of radioactive material in Irish water, milk and vegetables following Chernobyl
The Greens' new senator on her activist past and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
How a notorious Nazi war criminal was banned from his picturesque Waterford hideaway
The government was very concerned with bike tyres in 1985
Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush Loyalist strikers just like she did the miners
Ireland was terrified that exercise could be the end of us all in the early 1980s...
Does St Patrick deserve his own flag? An enterprising Kerryman thought he did
Glenroe, Dallas and Today Tonight - The top 10 programmes Ireland was watching in 1985
An English car enthusiast made a play for Eamon de Valera's Rolls Royce in 1985
Dublin planning officer: More pubs will reduce drink driving as people wouldn't have as far to travel
The great Donegal postal voting scam of 1985
This letter is most blatant Big Tobacco threat to a Taoiseach you're likely to see
The man who let the Taoiseach know exactly what he thought about Jack the Ripper being Irish
That time an Irish minister got the UK's Northern Secretary so hammered he had to be walked around a park
Garret FitzGerald really, really did not like Sinn Féin in 1985
Irish prisons ran out of overtime cash in 1984 - so they started letting prisoners go early
State Papers 1985: Garret Fitzgerald's government wasn't too keen on helping Stardust victims
30 years ago, Dublin was a crime-riddled joyrider's paradise
Governor warned of potential 'bloodbath' among IRA prisoners if rubber bullets were removed
'Say the daily rosary': This is the kind of fan mail you get when you're Taoiseach
Irish people really didn't like paying for their TV licence 30 years ago
The government wanted to launch a phone-tapping bill in 1985...
David Cameron adviser apologises over 'offensive' 1985 memo about black rioters
An Archbishop, a Taoiseach and an angry face-off over IRA violence and 'genocide'
30 years ago Dunnes Stores was involved in ANOTHER workers' dispute... one that shook the world
When Maggie dropped some epic shade on Garret FitzGerald...
Pornography being shown in pubs had the government in a fluster 30 years ago
Womanhood on trial: The letters received by the Taoiseach during the Kerry Babies saga
The Goonies is 30 - here's what became of the cast of an 80s classic
Man who 'assassinated a garda in cold blood' refused temporary release
Ban lifted on Dire Straits song