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# state papers 1986

All time
Irish ambassador said Russians blaming Chernobyl staff was a 'typical Soviet tactic'
The secret songs, pleading letters, and big name snubs of Ireland's plans to entertain Ronald Reagan
'Doomed to live alone': Mother pleads with Garret FitzGerald for divorce referendum
'Play your war games somewhere else': Anger as submarines caused havoc for Irish fishing industry in 1986
Ireland tried to ban smoking in public in 1986 - and Big Tobacco was not impressed
Government urged to help free priest charged with murder of Filipino mayor
'Sell water to Saudi Arabia and turf to England': A Londoner's advice to Garret FitzGerald