A United Nations observation post in southern Lebanon. A secret study by the Irish attorney general's office during the Troubles examined making the North a UN trusteeship policed by peacekeeping soldiers

A secret study carried out by the attorney general’s office in Dublin at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s explored asking the United Nations to make Northern Ireland a trusteeship, policed by UN soldiers.

The confidential 1975 study by the attorney general’s legal adviser, Mahon Hayes, was so secret that one government memo warned that it

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