Newly-released State papers have revealed several hidden stories from 1981 including fears that the Russians were looking at Rockall, an outcrop off Donegal, as a possible Cold War base!
The outcrop – 250 miles off Donegal – is claimed by Ireland, Britain, Denmark and Iceland!
The Irish Intelligence Service (G2) believed that the USSR would try to seize the rock and use it for an underwater missile base.
Ireland, however, was more interested in the threat to Irish summertime from an EEC proposal to synchronise clocks across Europe.
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