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Tue 12 Dec 2008Haughey's Irish solution to an Irish problem

OPINION:The facade of a decision was made to appease both sides in the contraception debate

I WAS BORN in 1978. Numbered among the government files, released under the 30-year rule yesterday by the National Archives, were documents relating to the contraception debate surrounding the 1978 Health (Family Planning) Bill. These were, well, consequently of some special interest.