Trust set-up invites problems for Haughey

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

The widower of Christopher Ewart-Biggs wanted the Taoiseach to take up where Jack Lynch had left off and put his name to a memorial fund in his name.

But some of Mr Haughey’s advisers cautioned that he could end up sponsoring a lecture given by the likes of pro-unionist politician Conor Cruise O’Brien, papers from 1983 released by the National Archives reveal.