State papers 1993-2003: What files are being released this week?
Official records from Dublin, Belfast and London cover years dominated by planning scandals, the dawn of the Celtic Tiger and a new start for Northern Ireland
Source: irishtimes.com
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State Papers: Máire Geoghegan-­Quinn made 1993 vow to urgently decriminalise homosexuality as European sanction loomed
In early 1993 the then justice minister Máire Geoghegan-Quinn vowed that Ireland would urgently legislate to decriminalise homosexuality amid a threat of European sanction.
Source: independent.ie
State Papers: Britain asked that President Mary McAleese give Omagh bombing funerals a miss to spare Queen Elizabeth blushes
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.
Source: independent.ie
David Trimble 'extraordinarily rude' as he accused Tony Blair of 'crude trick' - Homepage
The UUP delegation raised concerns about the phrasing of the timing of decommissioning in the summer of 1999.
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Peace process has taught politicians how to grow tribal vote through stubbornness
Newly released State papers shed light on the years immediately after the Belfast Agreement, so much of which is still in dispute or open to interpretation
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