Original upload date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 05:20:26 GMT
In a landmark statement broadcast on radio and television, the Taoiseach Jack Lynch asks the British government to request a peace-keeping force from the United Nations. The Taoiseach states that the
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Northern Ireland government is no longer in control of the situation and that the RUC is not accepted as an impartial police force. He also announces that the Irish Army will set up field hospitals along the border as "it is clear also that the Irish government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. Sorry about how his voice goes strange in some parts of it.
