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Wed 12 Dec 2009Lynch agreed to British plan for cross-Border overflights
MILITARY:NEWLY RELEASED documents provide the first official confirmation that taoiseach Jack Lynch agreed in principle to a proposal from Margaret Thatcher to provide an air-corridor for British army helicopters on the southern side of the Border in 1979.
Mr Lynch and his deputy, tánaiste and minister for finance George Colley, “had no basic objection” to the British prime minister’s proposal. The discussions took place in the aftermath of the IRA attacks which killed Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Sligo, and 18 British soldiers at Warrenpoint, Co Down on the same day, August 27th, 1979.
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