The full article from the Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune is below.
The visit was characterised by armed US Secret Service agents on the streets; electronic bugging of meetings; political discos; thousands of police and international press pouring into the city; nuns, priests and monks marching alongside anarchists, feminists, socialists, artists and business people; a giant Statue of Liberty leading a rally of thousands; academics in full regalia handing out honourary degrees for a few pence in the city centre, a formal deconferring led by the now President of Ireland.
And our dearly departed Nell McCafferty was guest speaker at an anti-war meeting held in a local school.
Then it ended with hundreds of Garda merrily drinking in the pubs with protestors!
Happy memories!!
https://connachttribune.ie/no-red-carpet-rolled-out-when-reagan-came-to-town/
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