Anglo Irish row over escaped prisoners

Title

Anglo Irish row over escaped prisoners

Genre

Interview

TX Date

14 Mar 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:41

Description

Des Fahy interviews shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Kevin McNamara on the row between the UK Government and Ireland over the Irish courts not extraditing two escaped terrorist prisoners, Dermot Finucane and James Pius Clarke, back to Northern Ireland over fears they would be mistreated in prison. And its possible effect on the Anglo-Irish agreement. For Brian Widlake show.

Contributors

Des Fahy; Kevin McNamara

Keywords

Deportation; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Ireland; UK; Terrorists; International relations; Rights of prisoners; Legal decisions; Unionism (Irish politics); Prisoners; Dermot Finucane; James Pius Clarke

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