The Department of Justice made a ‘very serious lapse’ in failing to put an asylum seeker convicted of a sexual offence in the UK on the register here – and a review into the matter is underway, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said.
John Bruton, who has died aged 76, was Fine Gael prime minister of the Irish Republic from 1994 to 1997, as peace in the North remained frustratingly out of reach. Apparently in sight when Bruton took office, it would only be achieved on Good Friday 1998 under his Fianna Fail successor, Bertie Ahern.
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