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Cuban leader Fidel Castro praised the quality of Irish goods during a stop-over at Shannon, but speculation about trade talks between the two countries prompted a junior minister who met the revolutionary to insist no formal talks took place.
State papers: Canadian diplomat could not understand how ‘someone of Gerry Adams’s intellect’ failed to recognise benefits to Sinn Féin of decommissioning