State Archives: Files reveal Charles Haughey's concern at claim lawyers ‘unduly sympathetic’ to IRA
The Government raised concerns over claims made by a British Conservative minister that some lawyers in Northern Ireland were “unduly sympathetic to the IRA”, weeks before Pat Finucane was killed.
In an official Irish government note, released under the 30-year rule, it was revealed then taoiseach Charles Haughey and other senior members of his cabinet were worried about the implications of Douglas Hogg’s remarks in the British House of Commons.
