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Margaret Thatcher visit to Northern Ireland

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Margaret Thatcher, then British Prime Minister, visited Northern Ireland. She met with industrialists and on a visit to Lisanelly Barracks, described the soldiers of the UDR were a “very *[very]* brave group” of men.

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BBC Radio News Report 1800 12 September 1989, cited by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation