State Papers: Haughey’s concern over British patrols in Carlingford Lough

As part of the annual release of National Archive files in Dublin, several pieces of correspondence detail the incident with sailor Henry Barnwell and his yacht 'the Lady Jane' on June 1, 1991

Former taoiseach Charles Haughey wrote to the sailor to say the Irish government would be making representations on his behalf. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Taoiseach Charles Haughey was unhappy after a British marine allegedly put a gun to the neck of a Dubliner while he was sailing on Carlingford Lough in 1991.

There were several instances where leisure boats on the disputed territory of Carlingford Lough had been approached by British patrols in the 1990s.