11 January 1994,
The Irish Government suspended the ban on Sinn Féin and IRA members appearing in the media. Censorship was based on a 1960 law. In the United Kingdom a similar law was established in 1988, but being more interpretable than the law of the Irish Republic, some media circumvented the ban with actors and dubbing subtitles.
Source:
Séan Ó Duibhir, A short history of Ireland’s Section 31 broadcasting ban (Raizen Teilifis Éireann, 26 May 2021).