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Fri 10 Oct 2008Blair brought army to heel - FitzGerald
IT WAS only when Tony Blair came to power that the British army in Northern Ireland was finally brought fully under the control of the British government, former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald said last night.
He had been told this by a senior British official, he said. He also recalled how as minister for foreign affairs in the 1973-77 coalition government, he had to make frequent representations to London about the indiscipline of British forces in Northern Ireland.
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