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British government officials were worried that Queen Elizabeth II might be left “embarrassed” if President Mary McAleese personally attended a memorial service for the victims of the Real IRA’s Omagh bombing when the monarch and British prime minister Tony Blair would not be present.
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) chiefs admitted as early as 2001 that there was a high-placed British agent within the IRA codenamed “Stakeknife”.
Despite the encounter being painted as a positive for Sinn Fein at the time, a disagreement ensued about disabling arsenal in Northern Ireland.
A war of words erupted between a senior civil servant and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) over angry complaints from academics that a senior member of their university had been snubbed from the inauguration ceremony of President Mary Robinson.
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