1988: Ireland

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Nationalist violence across the border in Northern Ireland cast an even darker shadow over the Republic of Ireland in 1988. In the face of intensified killing of British soldiers and Ulster police officers by the Irish Republican Army, antiterrorist measures south of the border were strengthened... ...