Declassified files: Downing Street was unnerved by the Northern Ireland Office’s willingness to alienate unionists
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* NI vaccine roll-out to wind down from next month: Don’t miss out, says Health Minister Robin Swann.
Northern Ireland’s current vaccination programme will not be available to the public indefinitely, Health Minister Robin Swann has warned.

* Sam McBride: Declassified files: Downing Street was unnerved by the Northern Ireland Office’s willingness to alienate unionists.
Immediate tensions between Mo Mowlam and Tony Blair within days of Labour’s landslide 1997 general election victory saw the prime minister block her attempts to move rapidly towards bringing Sinn Fein in from the cold before an IRA ceasefire, declassified files reveal.

* Ruth Dudley Edwards: Years of IRA appeasement have distorted Northern Ireland’s justice system.
I spent the best part of three days reading newspapers and posts and tweets and listening to hours of radio and watching video clips relating to the British government’s proposals to draw a line under Troubles crimes.

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Declassified files: Downing Street was unnerved by the Northern Ireland Office’s willingness to alienate unionists
 
Immediate tensions between Mo Mowlam and Tony Blair within days of Labour’s landslide 1997 general election victory saw the prime minister block her attempts to move rapidly towards bringing Sinn Fein in from the cold before an IRA ceasefire, declassified files reveal.
 
     
 
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