File 9 - Interviews, press releases, other press 1997

18 pp

Material relating to press coverage of President Mary Robinson (MR), 1997, including official statement by MR that she was not seeking a second term as President of Ireland, 12/03/1997; faxed correspondence from Matheson Ormsby Prentice, solicitors, acting on behalf of Independent Newspapers, to Bride Rosney, Special Adviser to the President, with draft text of full apology and retraction they had agreed to print, with handwritten amendments from MR, which related to opinion piece stating MR had ignored constitutional restraints during her term as President and that she did not have government consent for a number of private visits she made outside Ireland, 01-02/04/1997; photocopy of press statement by Taoiseach John Bruton, congratulating MR on announcement of her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 12/06/1997; fax of press statement by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on announcement by MR of her intention to resign from Office, 24/07/1997; material relating to press release announcing MR had executed her resignation from Office of President of Ireland on 12/09/1997; Christmas card from [Markus?] Fischer, Springer Foreign News Service, wishing MR well in new role and enclosing article he wrote about her for unidentified German newspaper, [12?]/1997.

Ref: P143/4/8/1/9

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