NIO press officer feared retaliation from ‘some dickhead in West Belfast’ in 1988 #20yearrule
WITH REPORTS that the 1988 Sinn Fein gagging order was linked to the bombing of the head of the NI Civil Service Sir Kenneth Bloomfield’s house, an NIO press officer feared retaliation from ‘some dickhead in West Belfast’ who might believe he supported the silencing of the republican politicians