Data protection concerns should not hinder transparency over peace process
State papers subject to 30-year rule while Britain set to apply a 20-year rule
Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 00:11
John Horgan
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The national archives legislation was a personal project of former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
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This year’s batch of revelations about the State papers made interesting reading, as ever, but for those of us with a political and historical interest in contemporary Irish history, it was like watching a production of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.