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It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.
President John F Kennedy’s wife Jackie phoned the Irish embassy in Washington DC from the White House just hours after the assassination of her husband in Dallas to personally ask if the Defence Forces’ cadets could play a role in his state funeral procession.
Irish officials were warned that any name change to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) would have to take into consideration unionist concerns.
It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.
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State papers: Higher age of consent for homosexuality was ‘optimum’ to avoid it being seen as ‘perfectly normal’, AG’s office said in 1993