A memo where the two governments discussed the robbery of €29.8 million in cash from the Belfast bank in 2004 was released as part of the annual release of the National Archives in Dublin.

Minister Pádraig Flynn was exercised by a range of security issues

Britain's King Charles paid a two-day visit to Ireland while Prince of Wales in June 1995

The then US president visited Northern Ireland before travelling to Dublin in 1995.

A priceless piece of lunar rock given to Ireland following a Nasa mission was lost in a fire at Dunsink Observatory, newly released records show.

Newly released files show that the cost to Northern Ireland of the bridge from Warrenpoint to Omeath would have been €241,350 (£200,000).

The confidential briefing note is part of the tranche of documents made public by the Irish National Archive.

The powersharing Executive at Stormont was suspended in 2003.

The Irish Government wanted to appeal to the UK side against ‘manipulating’ every scenario for favourable election results in Northern Ireland.

Father Aidan Troy received multiple loyalist death threats in January 2003 over his role in the Holy Cross dispute in Belfast.

Declassified files show intensive efforts ongoing behind the scenes to find agreement over north-south bodies in 1998.

The records from the National Archives in Dublin show that the SDLP and the Irish government were heavily against the idea.

The absence of an Israeli embassy in Dublin was a source of concern for Ireland’s small Jewish population at the time.

Among nine names proposed by Unionists, the Irish side determined that George Thomas, Lord Tonypandy, is ‘widely disliked’ at the House of Commons.

US president Bill Clinton overruled his advisor, newly released records show.

The Royal Bank of Scotland tried to give the State the portrait for two years.

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the Provisional IRA.

Concerns were raised about Robert Lowry, who presided over scores of non-jury trials of Republicans during the Troubles, newly released files reveal.

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

Irish and British authorities acknowledged that adding the Real IRA to the US list would also have benefits.

Sir Tony Blair appeared tired while making the remark in 2002.

Mr Blair called on the IRA to provide clarity on ‘three questions’ around disarmament.

Tony Blair established the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, following campaigns from the victims of the 1972 shootings on the streets of Derry.

Mrs Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh in March 1999.

Stormontgate in 2002 led to the suspension of devolution and the reintroduction of direct rule in Northern Ireland.

The exhibition at Dublin Castle reflects aspects of life in independent Ireland, as revealed in the National archives.

The issue will be heard by the Supreme Court in April following an appeal by a man accused of sexually abusing a girl decades ago

A meeting David Trimble had with residents was said to be ‘instrumental in creating the climate for a discontinuation of the protest’.

‘A far better course would be to admit that a mistake had been made and say that it would not happen again,’ a US diplomat said.

A Department of Finance official expressed concern at the spending ‘on discretionary items such as flowers’ during cutback efforts.

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’

Amid Northern Ireland peace process efforts, Bertie Ahern asked Tony Blair to look at the issue to close ‘an unhappy period in Anglo-Irish relations’

A briefing note from the Irish ambassador stated that the late princess had referred to Northern Ireland as part of Ireland.

A British diplomat said then-prime minister and Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II could face ’embarrassment’ by not attending the memorial.

It was noted that the ‘appropriate diplomatic excuse’ would need to be given by Patrick Hillery.

The UUP delegation raised concerns about the phrasing of the timing of decommissioning in the summer of 1999.

All paramilitary groups were to decommission by May 2000 under the Good Friday Agreement.

The meeting was set up after a pledge from taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Despite the encounter being painted as a positive for Sinn Fein at the time, a disagreement ensued about disabling arsenal in Northern Ireland.