The Rev Ian Paisley favoured religious fundamentalists over his DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson during the first roundtable peace talks between the main parties in Northern Ireland, records disclosed.

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey did not want the bodies of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar to be taken home through Dublin, archived British papers disclosed.

Almost 230 top secret documents from 1987 have been released by the North's Public Records Office.

RESEARCHERS, amateur historians and people tracing their family tree can find out where the records they are looking for might be held without leaving their desks or even lifting a phone.

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