Charlie Haughey was warned about potential embarrassment from sponsoring a trust set up in memory of a British ambassador blown up by the IRA.

When the IRA killed the British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs in 1976 a shocked nation was outraged, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

President Mary McAleese and members of the British and Irish Governments were among the congregation at a memorial service in Dublin today for British Ambassador to Ireland Christopher Ewart-Biggs.