Patrick Hillery News Today

This year is a milestone year for the RNLI as they celebrate 200 years of lifesaving, with Wicklow RNLI set to mark the occasion with a special anniversary celebration at Wicklow Harbour taking place on March 4.

The closure of the Ford factory in Cork in 1984 left 800 on the dole, severed a 67-year industrial link, and summed up the bleak 1980s, says SINEAD ...

Agri Careers: the transformation of agriculture education - 02 January 2024

THE YEAR 1981 saw the Troubles continue with relentless violence. Killings, assassinations, bombings and reprisals continued throughout the year — in January Bernadette McAliskey (formally Devlin) and her husband were shot and seriously injured in a gun attack in their home near Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. In the same month Norman Stronge (86), a former speaker

Princess Diana was criticized for her "ignorance" of Northern Ireland after describing it as part of Ireland, according to a recently declassified note from Irish ambassador Joseph Small to then Irish president Mary Robinson in 1993.

President Patrick Hillery and President Mary Robinson both raised the prospect of a return visit to Ireland by Pope John Paul II in the 1980s and 90s.

Irish Government officials worried that then-President Patrick Hillery's decision to decline an invitation to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981 would be perceived as a snub, according to newly declassified State Papers.

News from the Irish Examiners team of reporters

Briefing papers newly released by Ireland’s national archive talk of princess’s ‘obvious ignorance’ of constitutional position

The Irish ambassador described Diana, Princess of Wales, as ignorant after she apparently confused Ulster with the Republic, according to a newly released document.