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Priceless grave slabs stolen from an island in the Shannon were to be sold to collectors in the US, with some of the proceeds then being donated to Noraid to benefit the IRA.
The government feared that any redrawing of the Border and a resultant population transfer to the Republic from the North might involve an unaffordable cost for an economy already struggling to fight off recession.
Queen Elizabeth II wrote to President Mary Robinson to tell her that she shared her distress at the plight of Somalia and its people.
Government officials were swamped with queries from Irish citizens in the 1980s and 90s asking if they could legally obtain a divorce during visits to foreign countries.
Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam was concerned that high-profile British, American and Irish politicians campaigning to promote the Good Friday Agreement in the North could have the opposite impact to that intended and might run the risk of antagonising some voters.