Irish state papers from 1997 and 1998 detail the Republic of Ireland's arms crisis in the 1970s.
After David Trimble's death, Bertie Ahern said they shared both many laughs and arguments over the yearsThe then taoiseach Bertie Ahern turned down a request from David Trimble for an inquiry into the 1970 arms crisis in the Republic of Ireland.
Mr Blaney and Mr Haughey were eventually arrested and "charged with conspiring to import arms illegally into the state" but were not convicted. "Bloody Sunday was different because, not only did the victims of Bloody Sunday suffer their fate at the hands of those whose duty it was to respect as well as uphold the rule of law, but they also suffered the additional injustice of the Widgery Report," an Irish paper noted.Furthermore, the file continued, Ahern's predecessor in 1970, Jack Lynch, "far from covering up" the arms crisis, "exposed the facts of the case in the most public way possible".
Initial meetings between the officials of the new British government and their Irish counterparts were not always smooth. The priority for both governments in late spring and early summer 1997 was restoring the IRA ceasefire.with the Docklands bomb in London which killed two men and caused extensive damage.
Their acceptance "that they shared responsibility for resolving conflict in Ireland" and determination to "achieve peace" made a "very positive impression" with the British, according to the Irish files.
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