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# 1985 state papers

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The IRA bombing of two ships led to an Irish/British dispute over territorial waters
How a notorious Nazi war criminal was banned from his picturesque Waterford hideaway
The government was very concerned with bike tyres in 1985
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
An English car enthusiast made a play for Eamon de Valera's Rolls Royce in 1985
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
30 years ago, Dublin was a crime-riddled joyrider's paradise
'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...
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