An Irish official relayed that ambassador Sir Nicholas Fenn explained Thatcher had been speaking with a “certain sense of exasperation”.

State papers reveal that government officials were concerned that it would be embarrassing if the men’s convictions were upheld.

While Iran sent flowers, Pakistan praised Haughey’s “outstanding qualities of wisdom and leadership” after the general election.

The Deflector Association of Munster strongly opposed the Government’s introduction of MMDS broadcasting.

Naturally, as Taoiseach, Haughey was given two free pairs.

“This will be the 16th Christmas that my father and the five men… will spend imprisoned for a crime that they did not commit,” one letter said.

“This is the first positive thing you have done for us,” Paddy Joe Hill said in a handwritten letter to the Fianna Fáil Taoiseach.

“There is a sort of poetry about it the way you people express themselves – like the great writers,” Mitterrand told Haughey.

By 1988, The Guildford Four had served over 13 years in prison having been handed down life sentences.

Father Patrick Ryan was suspected of being an IRA quartermaster active in Belgium.

Newly released state papers show that a meeting was arranged between family members and then-Tánaiste Brian Lenihan.

The Taoiseach “made it clear that he would not admit to this request in public,” new documents show.

It’s understood that she passed away in hospital this morning after a short illness.

Molloy was one of the founding members of the Progressive Democrats in 1986.

A new documentary looks at the legacy of the late advisor.

“We are living way beyond our means, Sansa.”

There was a LOT of green going on — and, intriguingly, a locked room full of paperwork.

Some people were a little confused…

There were a LOT of Love/Hate comparisons.

“There’s something unknowable about him for sure. I wasn’t expecting to find a definitive answer.”

“He was a fascinating, divisive character.”

A touch of class from our former taoiseach.

Ben Dunne says politicians never ask him for money.

Excluding those who have resigned their seat to take up another political position or ill-health, there have been just a handful of resignations from parliament over principle or controversy down the years. Who are they? And why have there been so few?

Accompanied by Liam Lawlor, Haughey was there to arrange medical cooperation between the two countries.

State Papers show he planned to ‘bait’ Margaret Thatcher into talks on reunification using the plan.

He follows in the footsteps of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and ex-minister Micheál Martin in the vendetta against the habit.

Brendan Grace said money he received from an action taken against the former Taoiseach allowed him buy his family home.

Abbeville, the Georgian mansion belonging to the former Taoiseach, had been on the market for 18 months after the company that owned it went into receivership.

Aidan Gillen as Charlies Haughey and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as PJ Mara.