The challenge by two leading Ulster Unionists to the Anglo-Irish Agreement in the mid-1980s provoked serious concern in Dublin and London before it was eventually rejected by the High Court in Dublin, documents reveal.
Brothers Christopher and Michael McGimpsey challenged the November 1985 agreement, arguing that the Irish government had acted unconstitutionally by entering into the treaty with London.
Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution claimed jurisdiction over the whole island, and Dublin had implicitly renounced that by accepting that Northern Ireland would stay part of the UK
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