The government brought in word processors in the 1980s - and civil servants weren't too happy
One civil servant had to routinely work through lunch and late in the day to catch up on work.
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One civil servant had to routinely work through lunch and late in the day to catch up on work.
Hurricane Charley swept across numerous counties in 1986 but Wicklow suffered the most.
The Russian satellite Cosmos 1402 was set to fall from the skies in January 1983.
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Cork in June 1985 dropped Ireland into the middle of a humanitarian disaster recovery operation.
1986 saw government health warnings introduced on tobacco products in Ireland for the first time.
Did you have Bosco Sings in your house?
It didn’t happen for Bob though.
“I don’t like the way Charlie is doing it”.
The Nazi war criminal was suspected to have spent six weeks in Ireland under an assumed name
The 1985 Family Planning Act saw contraceptives made legal for over-18s without a prescription from selected outlets for the first time.
In battling David Norris’ claims that Irish homosexuality laws were in breach of his human rights, the government was considering all kinds of defences.