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Difference in fuel prices meant terrorists could profit by buying fuel in Republic and bringing it across Border, said Northern Ireland secretary Mandelson
Loyalist rioters had claimed republican paramilitaries were using the school run to enter the area.
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British government came under pressure from Sinn Féin in 2000 to give immunity to republicans who were ‘on the run’ for offences from before the Belfast Agreement
Many people, from Ireland and abroad, contacted the president about the controversial case in 1992.
Northern Ireland secretary of state Patrick Mayhew attempted to charm Irish diplomats by reassuring them that he had “grown up with a detestation of the ‘black Protestants’ of Northern Ireland”.