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Richard Needham takes a businesslike attitude to the Troubles

Northern Ireland’s longest serving British minister describes his canny strategy to regenerate the shattered infrastructure from 1983 onwards

Northern Ireland minister Richard Needham in 1995. [Alamy]
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    Blackstaff, pp. 320, £14

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