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IRA beatings would continue but be “less severe”, a journalist close to top republicans told the British Embassy in Dublin in 1994.
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‘As with most political leaders, collective memory of his years in office will be shaped to a large degree by what follows’
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For many years, the price Nell paid for being on the right side of history was to be reviled in whatever present she stood
When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.
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Despite her glamorous image and camera-ready smile, she was a reserved person, who was so shy she was unable to read aloud in secondary school