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BARONESS MARGARET THATCHER, Britain’s first female prime minister who was known by many as ‘The Iron Lady’, has died at the age of 87 following a stroke.
During her time in office from 1979 – 1990, she had many dealings with Ireland, particularly around the issue of Northern Ireland, leading to the Anglo-Irish agreement.
The aim of the agreement was to bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but it did not curb the violence or bring about reconciliation.
In 1979, Airey Neave, Mrs Thatcher’s spokesman on Northern Ireland, died in a car bomb at the House of Commons which was set by the INLA.
Thatcher refused to give concessions to the Irish Republican hunger strikers in the early 1980s, and commented following the death of Bobby Sands that “he chose to take his own life”.
A bomb was subsequently planted at a Brighton hotel in 1984 by an IRA member with the intention of assassinating Thatcher and her cabinet.
Thatcher escaped injury but five people were killed.
In 1985, Thatcher signed the controversial Anglo-Irish agreement with Ireland’s then-Taoiseach, the late Dr Garret Fitzgerald, at Hillsborough House near Belfast in Northern Ireland.
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Sure wasn’t it the same reason they banned those ads when all those people started eating 3 shredded wheat in the morning.
@Tony Gordon: ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! It’s just an add ffs, unfortunately people are still going to jump off cliffs whether this add is aired or not. NONSENSE!!
@paddyirishman: I guess the hope is that one of them might not and that they’ll seek help sooner than throw themselves to their death.
There’s something really ironic about seeing someone like yourself throw a wobbler online about an add being pulled, screaming that it’s nonsense… I mean, calm down, it’s just an add right?
Jeez what a snowflake. Someone please warn him about the add where Nicole Scherzinger walks into the door, don’t have a panic attack cos she makes a full recovery!
Amended ?????
The only way to amend this is to cut out everything before he gets out of the water …… The advertising agency behind this should have been hit with a hefty fine.
@Passing through this life: this kind of nonsense makes me want to jump off a cliff
@Passing through this life: just change the tag line “buy a Kia before you die (low km nearly new models on sale)”
@David Edwards: It might not cause you or for that matter me to do something stupid …… but this world is full of the truly stupid. Last year we had the incident of the guy who died from a fall from the cliff in Co Clare ….. and then there were the idiots during the storms …..
These people should not be encouraged or given ideas …… if only because of the financial cost to the Irish taxpayer ….
@David Edwards: Grow up, that’s not really too clever a thing to say now is it?
@Passing through this life: nice use of 5 ? You must have been really confused
@Passing through this life: Yes, because in the case of a person committing suicide all that matters is the taxpayer!
@Dotty Dunleary: Sorry if you missed my point …. my reference to “cost to the taxpayer” …. was to make a point to the idiots who think that it doesn’t effect them . I don’t begrudge this spending …. I also intended to make the point of the danger they put our rescue service personal in …. but accidently hit post.
@Passing through this life: It’s why the emergency services exist, and the personnel are trained to deal with dangerous situations. Hopefully they are never put in a position where there lives are endangered though!
@Passing through this life: is this not just called natural selection, using your analogy, think of how much money we could save trying not to swaddle the lemmings, But seriously its just an ad.
@Passing through this life: surely it would be cheaper for us not to swaddle every lemming from cradle to grave. But seriously its just an ad
7 year warranty though
Here we go again more PC bull
Snowflakes triggered again…
Fantastic
How does Superman get away with everything?
Some people just have too much time
idiotic ad
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