The revelation came in confidential documents released as part of the 1990 State Archives. One document revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey had directed senior civil servant Dermot Nally to ask the British Ambassador Nicholas Fenn to call to see him on September 20, 1990, over alarm in Dublin at remarks made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Government felt the prime minister’s remarks somehow hinted there was Irish responsibility for what had happened.
Mrs Thatcher had launched a scathing reproach on the “evil” attacks by the IRA on her friend Ian Gow MP as well as retired Air Chief Marshal and former Gibraltar Governor Peter Terry.