Garret FitzGerald
Patrick Murphy: Give our children chance of a better economic future
It is commonly suggested that the Irish are prisoners of history.
Patrick Murphy: We are not on the same planet as the south in terms of higher education
Just when you think that Stormont cannot get any more ridiculous, it generally does.
Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald proposed holding cross-border courts for paramilitary trials during the Troubles
FORMER Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald proposed holding cross-border courts during the Troubles, according to the memoirs of an ex-British diplomat.
Fionnuala O Connor: Hard to empathise with unionists who have never shown empathy
Alienated, unionists are.
State papers: Secretary of state Tom King ‘a major problem during critical episode'
SECRETARY of state Tom King was "a major problem" during a critical episode in Anglo-Irish relations, a high-ranking official reported.
State papers: Dublin feared ‘big' loyalist bomb after Anglo-Irish Agreement
THE Irish government feared a "big" loyalist bomb in Dublin in 1986 during a bitter unionist revolt against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald said.
State papers: Shoot-to-kill inquiry chief John Stalker unease about ‘six murders'
A POLICE chief who investigated an alleged shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland confided in a diplomat that he was not concerned about a cover-up but "murder, six murders", newly declassified files show.
