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President Mary Robinson was inundated with letters from people outraged by the X Case in early 1992, with US and UK groups raising human rights concerns and accusing Ireland of “exporting its problems”.
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State papers: Election of new US president raised fears among Irish officials in 2001 that the White House shamrock ceremony would be scrapped
Robert Drake was beaten 'to within an inch of his life' in January 1999 assault
Aer Rianta sought a Government contribution towards the IR£100,000 cost of lavishly hosting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at Shannon Airport in 1989.
A brutal “gay bashing” attack in Sligo which left a well-known US author with brain damage and requiring the use of a wheelchair threatened to prove “a public and media embarrassment” for Ireland.