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THE YEAR 1981 saw the Troubles continue with relentless violence. Killings, assassinations, bombings and reprisals continued throughout the year in January Bernadette McAliskey (formally Devlin) and her husband were shot and seriously injured in a gun attack in their home near Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. In the same month Norman Stronge (86), a former speaker
Irish Government officials worried that then-President Patrick Hillery's decision to decline an invitation to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981 would be perceived as a snub, according to newly declassified State Papers.