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# state papers 2023

Last year
2023
'Sex aids' being imported to Ireland in 1992 had officials abuzz with questions
29 Dec 2023
20.9k
15
McAleese was urged to meet loyalists of Holy Cross school dispute weeks before renewed violence
29 Dec 2023
8.9k
8
Wimbledon FC moving to Dublin never happened, but Tony Blair pushed for a Belfast move instead
28 Dec 2023
8.8k
8
9/11 sparked fears for nuclear or chemical attack preparedness in NI, State Papers reveal
28 Dec 2023
10.7k
8
Claim IRA members were in Colombia on holiday, not to train FARC, 'insulted US intelligence'
28 Dec 2023
22.4k
Tony Blair wanted to have 'a good time' during 1993 trip to Ireland, ideally involving U2
28 Dec 2023
12.6k
0
'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'
28 Dec 2023
15.6k
British officials 'perplexed' by exclusion of Garda McCabe's killers from GFA early release plans
27 Dec 2023
16.1k
36
Princess Diana referred to NI as part of the Republic, according to Irish ambassador's note
27 Dec 2023
24.0k
54
SF should move away from violent links to stop attracting 'head bangers', Adams agreed in 2001
27 Dec 2023
17.4k
Jackie Kennedy rang Irish Embassy to ensure Defence Forces would play role in JFK's funeral
27 Dec 2023
19.9k
1
Govt heard of British collusion in murder of man wrongly identified as IRA mole 'Stakeknife'
27 Dec 2023
20.5k
15
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
27 Dec 2023
19.0k