An African embassy contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs in the 1970s to raise concerns over racially- motivated attacks on its citizens in Dublin and to ask why gardaí were called to the home of one Nigerian man for allegedly bringing Irish girls back there.
Embarrassed Irish officials acknowledged the logistical demands of a state visit to Ireland by French president Francois Mitterrand would require the hiring of heavy-lift helicopters as the Air Corps did not have any.
State papers: 60% of Northern Ireland would be incorporated into the Republic, leaving just one of the North’s six counties fully intact, under proposal