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Aran sweaters, Avoca rugs and Waterford Crystal Statue of Liberty: Gifts Taoiseach gave Ronald Reagan
31 Dec 2016
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sudden spike
1986: The levels of radioactive material in Irish water, milk and vegetables following Chernobyl
30 Dec 2016
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IN 1985
The Greens' new senator on her activist past and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
14 May 2016
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Dark Past
How a notorious Nazi war criminal was banned from his picturesque Waterford hideaway
2 Jan 2016
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belfast bunfight
Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush Loyalist strikers just like she did the miners
2 Jan 2016
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damned aerobics
Ireland was terrified that exercise could be the end of us all in the early 1980s...
1 Jan 2016
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patron saint
Does St Patrick deserve his own flag? An enterprising Kerryman thought he did
1 Jan 2016
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State Papers
Glenroe, Dallas and Today Tonight - The top 10 programmes Ireland was watching in 1985
1 Jan 2016
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dev's car
An English car enthusiast made a play for Eamon de Valera's Rolls Royce in 1985
1 Jan 2016
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1985
Dublin planning officer: More pubs will reduce drink driving as people wouldn't have as far to travel
1 Jan 2016
920
no qualms
This letter is most blatant Big Tobacco threat to a Taoiseach you're likely to see
1 Jan 2016
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not impressed
The man who let the Taoiseach know exactly what he thought about Jack the Ripper being Irish
1 Jan 2016
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that's how we roll
That time an Irish minister got the UK's Northern Secretary so hammered he had to be walked around a park
31 Dec 2015
38.7k
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Mansion House
Garret FitzGerald really, really did not like Sinn Féin in 1985
31 Dec 2015
15.8k
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off you go so
Irish prisons ran out of overtime cash in 1984 - so they started letting prisoners go early
31 Dec 2015
10.0k
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terror blaze
State Papers 1985: Garret Fitzgerald's government wasn't too keen on helping Stardust victims
31 Dec 2015
15.3k
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RIOT CONTROL
Governor warned of potential 'bloodbath' among IRA prisoners if rubber bullets were removed
31 Dec 2015
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1985 state papers
'Say the daily rosary': This is the kind of fan mail you get when you're Taoiseach
30 Dec 2015
14.3k
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State Papers
Irish people really didn't like paying for their TV licence 30 years ago
30 Dec 2015
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someone's listening
The government wanted to launch a phone-tapping bill in 1985...
30 Dec 2015
8.3k
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Oliver Letwin
David Cameron adviser apologises over 'offensive' 1985 memo about black rioters
30 Dec 2015
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a just war?
An Archbishop, a Taoiseach and an angry face-off over IRA violence and 'genocide'
30 Dec 2015
23.7k
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Apartheid
30 years ago Dunnes Stores was involved in ANOTHER workers' dispute... one that shook the world
30 Dec 2015
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nudey films
Pornography being shown in pubs had the government in a fluster 30 years ago
30 Dec 2015
25.7k
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kerry babies
Womanhood on trial: The letters received by the Taoiseach during the Kerry Babies saga
30 Dec 2015
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