At one time the NIC enjoyed a close relationship with the
Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP); indeed, their joint Memorandum on Citizens' Rights (NIC-ICTU/NILP 1967), formulated in 1965-66 before politics moved onto the streets, has been described as "as full a programme of reform as any [later] brought out by an explicitly civil rights group" (Purdie 1990: 71).
The Irish government documents named them as the late Paddy Devlin, then of the
Northern Ireland Labour Party, the late Paddy Kennedy, of Republican Labour, both from Belfast, and Paddy O'Hanlon, an independent from Co Armagh.The files involved should have been released on January 1 under the 30 year rule, but were then listed as missing.
The Taoiseach met leaders of the SDLP, the Alliance party, Sinn Fein, the
Northern Ireland Labour party and the Women's Coalition in Dublin yesterday.