Peter Brooke

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Not even economic success as a ‘Celtic Tiger’ has budged Ireland's invincible, self-righteous neutralism and skin-flintery in providing for its own defence. Fine Gael/Fianna Fail-led governments may have fallen massively beneath the level of world events but that will be as nothing if Sinn Fein wins powerplaceholder image

Dean Godson: Ireland free-loads off UK, yet displays post-Brexit Anglophobia

Peter Brooke sang ‘Oh My Darling Clementine’ on the RTE Gaye Byrne show, the night in 1992 of the IRA Teebane massacre when eight Protestant workmen died and six more were injured when their van was blown up by a 500lb road-side bomb at Teebane crossroads between Omagh and Cookstownplaceholder image

Letter: The night that I lost respect for Peter Brooke

Pacemaker Archive Belfast. Peter brooke at Stormont. 07-05-1991. 212-91-BWplaceholder image

Peter Brooke: Death of ex-NI Sec who believed IRA unlikely to be beaten by force

Peter Brooke was clapped and cheered at the Tory conferenceplaceholder image

Letters: Reminded of speech about UK having no selfish interest in NI

Esther Wilson from Armagh with Bellringer Two, the champion Shorthorn at the Balmoral Show in May 1991. The cow was owned by Tommy Irwin of Fintona. Picture: News Letter/Farming Life archivesplaceholder image

BYGONE BALMORALS: Mrs Lindsay Brooke opens show for her busy husband

Only a hard-pressed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland would start his day without having a shave but Tracy Wilson was on hand to soft soap his bristles when he visited the beauty-without-cruelty form Nectar Cosmetics in Carrickfergus in October 1989. Picture: Trevor Dickson/News Letter archivesplaceholder image

IN PICTURES: Through The Archives – looking back at October 1989

Kilroot power station was sold in 1992, along with three other power stations across Northern Ireland. Photo: Stephen Hamilton-Presseyeplaceholder image

Tories tried to hide price hikes after NIE was sold

John Hume (right) viewed Ian Paisley as a good deal more flexible and more positive-minded than Jim Molyneauxplaceholder image

Declassified files: Hume set out architecture of 1998 GFA eight years earlier

The details were released by the Public Records Office of Northern Irelandplaceholder image

Declassified files: NIO minister considered selling ads on border checkpoint

Alan McQuillan in 2006, whilst head of the Assets Recovery Agency. He left law enforcement in 2008placeholder image

Unionists badly need a leader like McGuinness: former RUC deputy

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