Thatcher ‘switches off’ when Northern Ireland comes up - Irish diplomat, 1989
State papers: Document reveals officials were also worried about British prime minister’s tendency to ‘go over the top’ on other issues
British government feared ‘tabloid scandal’ if it released Birmingham Six
State papers: The six Irishmen were jailed for life in 1975 after being wrongfully convicted of the murders of 21 people in IRA bomb attacks on two pubs
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