Thatcher ‘depressed’ by Northern Ireland in the 1980s

The state papers released under the 30-year rule show the former British Prime Minister's concern about violence in Northern Ireland.

She confided in then Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald that the UK 'got it wrong' in 1921 with Northern Ireland's border.

Ralph Riegel, Southern Correspondent with the Irish Independent, says many of the discussions between the two leaders were about the developing situation in Northern Ireland.