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Declassified files show NI’s future reformist PM ‘against nuclear plant in Catholic area’

 The man who would become Northern Ireland’s key reformist Prime Minister
repeatedly expressed alarm at a plan to build a nuclear reactor in a
Catholic area of Tyrone, a previously secret file from the old Stormont
government reveals.

In 1950s Northern Ireland, Terence O’Neill was
Minister of Home Affairs and then Finance Minister at a time when the
unionist administration was adapting to life after the Second World War,
the new challenges of the Cold War, the extension of Clement Atlee’s
welfare reforms across the Irish Sea and the IRA border campaign.

 Belfast Telegraph 28th Aug 2024

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/declassified-files-show-nis-future-reformist-pm-against-nuclear-plant-in-catholic-area/a966715013.html

August 30, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | history, Ireland