Archives show Charles Haughey urged RAF not to fly IRA bodies through Dublin

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.

Archives show Charles Haughey urged RAF not to fly IRA bodies through Dublin

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.

An elite team opened fire in March 1988 because they believed the republicans were about to detonate a remote-controlled bomb in the tiny British territory in the Mediterranean.

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