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Mon 07 Jul 2009NI policy with Haughey in power
MEMOIR:Within days of Charles Haughey becoming Taoiseach, there was uncertainty among Ireland’s friends in Washington as to what the change meant for policy. The fact that Neil Blaney and the Irish National Caucus welcomed the change added to their doubts
IN JULY, 1978, I was appointed Irish ambassador to the US. I had spent the previous seven years in the Anglo-Irish division of the Department of Foreign Affairs, much of it in Northern Ireland monitoring and assessing the situation there for the government.
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