Dermot Gallagher

Dáil Sketch: O’Connor bags a meeting with the Taoiseach as MacSharry forgets who’s who

Party’s ‘socialist views’ did not impress some senior IRA members, according to prison chaplain

Former Seanad member fell out with Charles Haughey, had a blazing row with Garret Fitzgerald and felt let down by Bertie Ahern

Former Northern Ireland secretary highly critical of Thatcher and unionists

Molyneaux’s UUP and Paisley’s DUP had boycotted the Anglo-Irish Agreement

State Papers show Fianna Fáil government had misgivings about inquest’s limited mandate

Fianna Fáil leader told Northern secretary party ‘going berserk’ over UK co-operation

State Papers 1987: Then taoiseach jokingly asked for loan of ‘£2bn or so’ from British PM

Irish and international stars of film, music, politics, sport and real life who left us this year

1990: ‘It was clear that the debate between the bullet and the ballot was not dying away’

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Taoiseach’s trip to US on St Patrick’s Day became most significant during peace process

Skilled civil servant who helped steer North talks towards Belfast Agreement

Parish priest Fr Gerry Stuart says late civil servant’s life was rooted in family and friends

President Higgins leads tributes to former Foreign Affairs secretary general