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Official records released by British and Irish archives include details of an Irish priest’s unauthorised refugee settlement in Co Wicklow and a ‘republican’ artefact thief
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.
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State papers: After visiting refugee camps in Somalia the president gave an emotional press conference in which she criticised the UN’s approach to the camps and did not hide her anger about conditions
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Civil servants feared it would anger Sinn Féin and put the progress of the peace process in jeopardy
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.