Newly declassified records have revealed that the Defence Forces drafted plans to invade Northern Ireland in 1986 in the event of the Anglo-Irish Agreement failing and the British pulling out. The plans involved a “direct thrust” by at least two Defence Forces brigades starting from Dundalk or Monaghan, thereby creating a corridor through the “overwhelming...Read More→
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