Anglo-Irish talks and IRA violence

Title

Anglo-Irish talks and IRA violence

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

26 Oct 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:35

Description

Mark Phillips reports on Anglo-Irish talks stalling amid a wave of IRA violence. Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke and Irish Foreign Minister Gerry Collins condemn the IRA proxy bombs at Irish border checkpoints which kiled 6 and comment on progress of the talks. Meanwhile 6 men believed to belong to the IRA were arrested in Ireland and 4 students were arrested in Staffordshire. Follows the attempted assassination of former Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Peter Terry, at his home in Staffordshire, and the murder of an off-duty soldier at Lichfield railway station.

Contributors

Peter Brooke; Mark Phillips; Gerry Collins

Keywords

Deaths; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Ireland; IRA; International relations; International politics; Diplomacy; Bombs; Londonderry; Arrests; Staffordshire; Lichfield; Peter Terry; Newry

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