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The annual colours match between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin was due to take place yesterday. The match was postponed, not because of Covid-19 restrictions but because of supermarket panic buying. As a result there simply wasn't enough flour, eggs and cabbages to be had so that they could be thrown liberally about the terraces.
Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 03.03 EST The detention of the pregnant daughter of the Northern Ireland civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey threatened to degenerate into a âPR disasterâ, John Major was warned, according to files released to the National Archives. The decision to hold RóisÃn McAliskey in Holloway prison while awaiting extradition to Germany â on suspicion of participating in a 1996 IRA mortar attack on a British army base in Osnabrück â caused acute anxiety in Whitehall at a sensitive moment in the peace process. Secret Downing Street...
Prince Charles abandoned a proposed visit to the Republic of Ireland in the summer of 1996 amid concerns about his personal safety, previously classified documents show. Aides originally planned for the Prince of Wales to undertake a three-day visit to the Republic from June 29, just as early talks laying the way for the subsequent Good Friday Agreement got under way in earnest at Stormont. But secret arrangements for the “low-key” official visit were scuppered when officials either side of the Irish Sea voiced concerns about the trip. A letter from Foreign Office diplomat Dominick Chilco...
It was the year when almost everyone said sorry - and in some cases they kept on saying it.
Plans by senior officials to allow Nelson Mandela to address a joint sitting of the Dail and Seanad during a visit to Ireland just four months after his release from prison in South Africa were