British cabinet secretary demonstrated creativity and commitment in search for peace
Sir, – As the three remaining survivors of the small team of Irish officials that negotiated the text of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 with a corresponding team of British officials led by Sir Robert Armstrong, the British cabinet secretary, we read Mark Hennessy’s article in last Saturday’s Irish Times about the “Spycatcher” court case in Australia in 1986 with great interest travelled together to Washington to lobby US president Ronald Reagan, House Speaker Tip O’Neill and other...
Emer McLysaght: I foresee Bono re-enacting that famous photo with David Trimble and John Hume, except with Liam and NoelOasis: Dublin hotel rates rising - but still too early to count cost of reunion concerts We who sat across the table from him on the Irish side for 36 intensive negotiating sessions over the years 1984-85 retain warm memories of the creative role played by Robert Armstrong over that whole period. Then, and afterwards, he maintained some of the personal reticence that he saw as appropriate in a senior government official. But he was clearly central to the success of the negotiations: without him, and his colleague David Goodall , there would simply have been no agreement.
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