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DUP accused government of being 'scared of the provos' after IRA abduction
Veteran republican Bobby Tohill was abducted in Belfast in 2004, damaging Sinn Féin’s reputation amid peace process talks.
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Ireland warned US that labelling IRA a terrorist organisation might encourage more people to join
The issue was a talking point during Bertie Ahern’s visit to Washington DC in March 2001, newly released documents show.
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Blair wanted to 'race through' meetings with unionists but would have to 'listen to their whinges'
British and Irish officials were also concerned about ‘daft’ plans to name members of the IRA Army Council in 2004, State Papers reveal.
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'Reproductive fascism': Read the letters calling on Mary Robinson to intervene in X Case
- 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'
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Ireland considered making 21 age of consent for gay people when decriminalising homosexuality
- 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
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