PRESIDENTIAL PURGE

Mary Robinson

IRISH TIMES news values asserted themselves days after Christmas with a front page story culled from declassified 1990 state papers headlined, “Áras in a shambles when Robinson arrived to move in”. The shocked IT described how the newly elected president was faced with obsolete fittings and equipment that would have seen the Áras condemned if… Read more »

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