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Recovery of lost archives from Public Records Office fire ‘breathtaking’

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has described the recovery of lost archives from the fire that engulfed the Public Records Office a century ago as “breathtaking”. Decades of Irish history went up in flames when the archives were almost totally destroyed ...

27 Jun 2022 at 16:06

Northern Ireland

Consideration given to recruiting 50% women to newly formed PSNI, records show

Consideration was given to recruiting women into Northern Ireland’s new police force on a 50:50 basis with men to address their “severe under-representation”, declassified files have revealed. However, legal advice was that a policy that half of ...

30 Dec 2024 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

Mothers were prepared to forgo antenatal care, study into polarisation found

Some pregnant women in Belfast were prepared to forgo antenatal care rather than travel to a medical clinic in an area dominated by another religion, a study into the cost of a polarised society found in 2001. The draft report, among newly ...

22 Aug 2024 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

Minister said ‘no hiding place’ for those who threatened Celtic star Lennon

A unionist minister wrote directly to Celtic star Neil Lennon in 2002 after he had received a death threat hours ahead of playing for Northern Ireland, telling him there “must be no hiding place” for those responsible. The letter from ...

22 Aug 2024 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

President Mary McAleese pledged to help spread Ulster Scots message in Ireland

Former Irish president Mary McAleese pledged to do whatever she could to secure more recognition of Ulster Scots culture in the Republic of Ireland, archives show. The commitment from Mrs McAleese was made to members of the Ulster ...

28 Dec 2023 at 09:00

Northern Ireland

Work begins to conserve one of the oldest paper documents on island of Ireland

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register belonging to the former ...

26 Dec 2024 at 11:27

Northern Ireland

Alderdice sought advice on going to Washington DC during Stormont suspension

Former Stormont speaker Lord John Alderdice wrote to Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson in 2000 seeking advice on whether he should attend St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the US at a time when the powersharing ...

22 Aug 2024 at 11:00

Local News

Work begins to conserve one of the oldest paper documents on island of Ireland

26 Dec 2024 at 15:33

National News

Recovery of lost archives from Public Records Office fire ‘breathtaking’

28 Jun 2022 at 13:33

Blair felt peace deal referendums would end international acceptance of violence

Tony Blair predicted that referendums on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement would end the international perceptions that violence in Northern Ireland “had some justification”. The former prime minister’s ...

29 Dec 2021 at 11:55

Northern Ireland

‘Politically charged’ option of closing rail network sections suggested in 2000

Government officials suggested examining the “politically charged” option of closing parts of Northern Ireland’s rail network after safety concerns were raised in 2000, newly declassified files have ...

24 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

More than 100 people give testimony to probe into mother and baby homes

More than 100 people have given evidence to a probe into historic mother and baby homes, Magdalen institutions and workhouses. Research has indicated that more than 14,000 women and teenage girls ...

06 Nov 2024 at 15:07

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