At the time Donoughoe, who provided papers to the review body on issues such as dominion status, was appalled at the amount of discussion on Ireland which went on without any consideration of the Republic. When he went to the Foreign Office about this he found that David Owen was particularly helpful, and planning took place along the lines of involving the Republic, Europe and the United States in the situation. This type of approach, which presaged what actually occurred in the 1993–4 period preceding the IRA ceasefire, was of course the way forward and had it been followed up a great deal
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