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Donnacha Ó Beacháin
, London and Belfast believed that the UN could play no useful role and opposed the tabling of a formal resolution. The advent of rapprochement and functional cooperation with Terence O’Neill’s administration during the mid-1960s would provide an additional reason not to antagonise the British or Northern Ireland Governments. Privately, the Minister 72 From Partition to Brexit for External Affairs, Frank Aiken, conceded that UN General Assembly resolutions were of ‘little or no value’ as they were not binding. To support his claim, the Tánaiste cited the number of