Here's some of what we have learned on the final day of the releases:

Then taoiseach Bertie Ahern told British prime minister Tony Blair that surveillance showed 'key people' were 'not doing an awful lot'

That insight came as Irish officials and diplomats sought to cultivate contacts in the Labour Party and help shape the policy of any future Blair administration

Then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told Tony Blair two weeks before the Omagh bombing that the Real IRA did not seem to be "overly active".

The Minister for Finance at the time, Albert Reynolds, admitted his hands were tied because European law prevented him from lowering the cost of sports equipment through tax cuts

Up to 1990, four hunts located in the south-west were granted licences each year to hunt otter between April and October

She was attacked and tied up along with other dinner guests by masked raiders armed with machine guns

Businessman requested help from minister for foreign affairs Brian Lenihan in February 1989 to obtain monies which he claimed was owed to him from the Soviet government on foot of bonds that had been issued during World War I by the government of Czar Nicholas I

The US president joked that the US would provide $300m in aid to Northern Ireland if he could complete a round of golf in under 80 strokes

US officials complained Irish authorities were planning to accommodate president Ronald Reagan’s staff and travelling US media in 41 different hotels during the visit to Ballyporeen in 1984

Irish diplomats believed the Irish College in Rome was unaware of the location of the death bed of Daniel O’Connell when a request was made for its return to Ireland 30 years ago.

The records cover the period from 1992 to 1998

'This approach goes much further than acceptance of an Irish dimension, but without embracing a belief that Irish unity must come at some stage;

The British prime minister and his wife, Norma, also saw a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the National Concert Hall which Mr Major described as “a truly marvellous evening.” 

In 1990, the collector had bought the German Luger 9mm firearms, which were believed to have been kept at a depot in Dublin's Clancy Barracks

Rules on plant health threatened to prevent the gifting of a 60ft Christmas tree to Belfast from sister city Nashville

The Republican leadership in the prison did not want the tunnel plot to work over fears “hard-line Republican prisoners” could escape and attempt to derail negotiations for a renewed IRA ceasefire

State files show the then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, was considering nominating Live Aid frontman, Bob Geldof for a Nobel Prize.

State records show John Bruton was also forced to issue an apology to the Cork-based radio station, 96FM, in April 1995 for his treatment of one of its reporters

The European Commission had recommended allowing State aid for Irish Steel together with all the EU member states excluding the UK

Unknown officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs resorted to black humour to create a list of interpretations of common responses to queries from members of the public about family members trapped in Kuwait and Iraq in late 1990, according to ...

Albert Reynolds told John Major that Ireland is "not ruled by Rome", during a meeting in which the Irish side expressed frustration at the attitude of unionists to talks on Northern Ireland.

Proposals to host Northern Ireland’s political leaders at a remote game reserve in South Africa for a bonding exercise to advance the peace process was described as a "rubbish" idea by Taoiseach John Bruton.

The gift of a live elephant was presented to the Irish president during a visit to the then Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam

Gerry Adams has always denied that he was a member of the IRA

A memo recorded by an official in the Department of the Taoiseach noted that Mr Haughey "described the venison pate — served at the lunch — as a disaster”.

Taoiseach told John Major in 1991: "Don't attribute too much sophistication and understanding to the unionists"

Mr Haughey warned his British counterpart about the unstable nature of the colourful North African leader against a background of Libyan support for the IRA

A conference in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel had invited representatives of all the North's main political parties but the unionist parties refused

Johnson’s politics were recorded by the Irish official as “Thatcherite and Eurosceptic.”