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You know you're old when practically everything in the #StatePapers feels as if it were a week ago
December 29, 2024 at 9:14 AM
mcculld.bsky.social
Swapping ballot papers for #StatePapers. A week in the National Archives ahead as we dive into this year’s releases. See the results from Dec 27th! @news.rte.ie
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
cecilearchives.bsky.social
The real Christmas...#StatePapers
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mcculld.bsky.social David McCullagh @mcculld.bsky.social · Dec 2
Swapping ballot papers for #StatePapers. A week in the National Archives ahead as we dive into this year’s releases. See the results from Dec 27th! @news.rte.ie
December 2, 2024 at 11:02 AM
quiatimet.bsky.social
The #statepapers release hits different for the years you remember.
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
mcculld.bsky.social
Day One of the #StatePapers! With links to all today’s stories… www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
What have we learnt from the State Papers?
The presents have all been opened, the selection boxes are finished and the last of the turkey sandwiches have been made. So, it must be time to take a look at the annual release of State Papers.
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December 27, 2024 at 10:17 AM
mcculld.bsky.social
Day 2 of #StatePapers, with links to all of today’s stories! www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
Day Two: Serious and bizarre topics in State Papers
The previously confidential government files released this week to the National Archives cover a huge array of subjects, from the serious to the plain bizarre.
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December 28, 2024 at 1:24 AM
mcculld.bsky.social
Great stuff on the #StatePapers on @news.rte.ie from Fiachra O Cionnaith, Evelyn O’Rourke and @harrymanningrte.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Explainer: What are the State Papers?
The State Papers include letters, communications, private briefing notes, secret government documents, fax messages and e-mails relating to stories from the past.
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December 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
mcculld.bsky.social
Among the other stories in this year’s #StatePapers - arise, Sir Oliver… www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
Six more things we learnt from the State Papers
Every year, the release of State Papers around Christmas time draws a flurry of interest as stories that many may have forgotten resurface.
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December 28, 2024 at 2:37 PM
mcculld.bsky.social
Day Four of the #StatePapers - with links to all of today’s stories! www.rte.ie/news/2024/12...
1994 State Papers shed little light on FF-Labour collapse
This year, perhaps the biggest surprise about the release of material from the 1994 State Papers is the almost complete absence of revelations about the biggest political story of the year, the collap...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:20 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
#StatePapers

Tourism Ireland plan delayed because David Trimble objected to Britain being called 'overseas'

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Tourism Ireland plan delayed because David Trimble objected to Britain being called 'overseas'
In 2003, then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told Tony Blair the delay was “unacceptable”.
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December 29, 2024 at 2:07 PM
cathyby.bsky.social
Irish #statepapers are out
December 27, 2024 at 10:38 AM
mcculld.bsky.social
More great #StatePapers coverage on @news.rte.ie this morning from @ocionnaith.bsky.social, @harrymanningrte.bsky.social & Evelyn O’Rourke - I liked this one… www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Chinese panda's Dublin trip may have led to its death
Chinese officials suggested that a trip by a giant panda to Dublin Zoo may have contributed to its death, according to a new file released under the State Papers.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
grainneblair.bsky.social
My favourite time of year #StatePapers
December 2, 2024 at 1:58 PM
mcculld.bsky.social
More great yarns from the #StatePapers today on @news.rte.ie from @ocionnaith.bsky.social, Evelyn O’Rourke and @harrymanningrte.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
5 things we learned from Day 3 of State Papers
We have reached the penultimate day of this year's State Paper release - and today carries a bit of a sporting theme. Two of today's main stories centre around the Republic of Ireland national team.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
dmarshall.bsky.social
#StatePapers : Loyalist leaders were well-regarded by Dublin, Washington

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Loyalist leaders were well-regarded by Dublin, Washington
The political representatives of loyalism were well-regarded in Dublin and Washington, with the White House describing them as "a breath of fresh air", according to newly released State papers.
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December 27, 2024 at 9:11 AM
mbtwomey.bsky.social
Can well believe Bertie was against the ‘Ethics in Public Office’ bill being drafted by Dick Spring. #StatePapers 🇮🇪.
December 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
#StatePapers

Iran offered Ireland a’secret meeting' to help free Brian Keenan

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Iran offered 'secret meeting' to help free Brian Keenan
Ireland was offered a "secret meeting" with the Iranian president to help in the release of Belfast man Brian Keenan who was taken hostage and held for four years by militia in Lebanon.
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December 29, 2024 at 2:02 PM
dmarshall.bsky.social
John Bruton did not believe that Sinn Féin and the SDLP accurately represented the views of ordinary northern nationalists and wanted to carry out opinion polling to find out what they really wanted.

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Bruton sceptical SF, SDLP represented nationalist views
John Bruton did not believe that Sinn Féin and the SDLP accurately represented the views of ordinary northern nationalists and wanted to carry out opinion polling to find out what they really wanted, ...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:21 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
More from the Irish #StatePapers

JFK was ‘apathetic’ to ending partition

British gave US copy of Casement’s alleged ‘Black Diaries’

SF 'prevented' anti-Ahern graffiti

Belfast had only three 'adequate' restaurants in 1998, officials told

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Day Four: Five other things we learned from State Papers
There were only three "adequate" Belfast restaurants in 1998, an Apollo 11 lunar rock was destroyed in a fire and Britain's extraordinary lengths to destroy the reputation of Roger Casement are some o...
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December 30, 2024 at 10:16 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
The Irish government offered emergency accommodation to a Catholic priest who received death threats in 2003 after a loyalist protest outside a primary school in north Belfast.

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Holy Cross priest offered accommodation after threats
The Irish government offered emergency accommodation to a Catholic priest who received death threats in 2003 after a loyalist protest outside a primary school in north Belfast.
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December 30, 2024 at 10:19 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
#StatePapers : British general called Saville Inquiry 'cynical move'.

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British general called Saville Inquiry 'cynical move'
The top British soldier in Northern Ireland was so enraged by the establishment of a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday that he launched an extraordinary attack on his own government, accusing it of a "cy...
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December 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM
dmarshall.bsky.social
#StatePapers

Irish Gov not impressed by British Gov’s suggestions for chair of 1992 Strand 2 North /South talks

Former speaker of the House of Commons George Thomas had "a petulant and ‘bitchy’ temperament and does not forgive slights, alleged or real".

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Day Three: Six more things we learnt in the State Papers
Here are six more things we learnt we learned from the State Papers.
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December 29, 2024 at 2:05 PM
gerardelwood.bsky.social
The annual release of State Papers reveals details of events from 1994 to 2004, including Boris Yeltsin's Shannon Airport mishap and government disputes over Israeli arms deals.

📜🇮🇪 #StatePapers

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What have we learnt from the State Papers?
The presents have all been opened, the selection boxes are finished and the last of the turkey sandwiches have been made. So, it must be time to take a look at the annual release of State Papers.
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December 27, 2024 at 4:05 AM
jamesgrcronin.bsky.social
#StatePapers Jewish community rebuffed the claim that Ireland was anti-semantic 80 years ago

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State Papers: Jewish community rebuffed claim that Ireland was antisemitic 80 years ago
In 1944, foreshadowing events of 2024, the Jewish Representative Council of Éire described as 'false, irresponsible, and mischievous' a suggestion that Ireland was antisemitic
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December 30, 2024 at 8:12 PM