Former Sinn Féin president admitted to officials that he may not have felt able to share information due to his 'republicanism'

The Liffey Trust planned a Monte Carlo-style F1 circuit along the East Wall Rd, through Fairview, and back via Alfie Byrne Rd 

Emmet’s body was beheaded and dismembered after his hanging and the location of his skull remains a mystery

The Government feared "that the export from Ireland to Taiwan of military goods would be regarded by Beijing as a highly provocative act inviting retaliation"

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern opposed allowing additional refugees fleeing the war-torn former Yugoslavia into Ireland while he was Minister for Finance in the Albert Reynolds-led administration in the early 1990s.

State papers show US diplomats cancelled a system contingent on being kept private after a TD went public in the media in 1992

Release of top-secret files on North peace process show members of Anglo-Irish secretariat were anxious to establish who was behind attempted assassination in Belfast in 1999

President expressed annoyance following trip to Liverpool

Mr Hume said he had drafted the document following a meeting with the British prime minister, John Major.

The papers also reveal the then-President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, offered to host a lunch in Mugabe’s honour

A DUP mayor also mounted a ban on the Bushmills brand over the company’s sponsorship of a GAA team in Northern Ireland

The then Irish ambassador to the Holy See, Brendan Dillon, described a statement issued on behalf of the Irish hierarchy as “quite graceless”

Initial advertisements placed by the Department of External Affairs attracted no replies while a follow-up advertisement included Shaw’s name, which officials believed would act as 'some sort of attraction' State papers show

Civil servants believed new president and advisers were challenging the limits of her office

President Mary Robinson’s much-praised visit to Somalia in 1992 to highlight famine in the Horn of Africa was greeted with less enthusiasm by senior officials in Dublin, according to newly-released State papers.

The British authorities made several requests to the Irish government during the 1990s to base an aircraft in the south-west of the Republic to carry out anti-drug smuggling surveillance activity, newly released State papers have revealed.

Complaint made by Galway resident, who said incident had completely spoiled the couple's holiday

Taoiseach Charles Haughey was literally forced to look a gift horse in the mouth – or seven animals to be exact – after pedigree Arabian thoroughbreds presented to the State by a wealthy US donor were found upon close examination to be “of a very ...