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Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

19 May 2026

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 26

5 June 2015

Series by Mícheál Mac Donncha chronicling the road to the 1916 Rising as seen through the pages of An tÓglach – the Irish Volunteer from 24 April 1915 to 22 April 1916 Free article

Watch – Collusion campaign families meet deputy First Minister at Stormont

5 June 2015

Families take their cases to Parliament Buildings after recent BBC 'Panorama' revelations Free article

Tricolour over Stormont raises flags issue across the Six Counties

4 June 2015

Unionists see red over ten minutes of green, white and orange at old loyalist citadel but not on Union and loyalist flags at interfaces and covering town centres Free article

The deaths of Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg

3 June 2015

BOTH the hunger-strike deaths of the 1970s took place in prisons in England. The first, on Monday 3 June 1974, was Michael Gaughan of Ballina, County Mayo, followed almost two years later by another Mayo man, Frank Stagg of Hollymount, on Thursday 12 February 1976. Free article

British Tory austerity crisis in North now threatens political institutions

2 June 2015

The Tory ideologues now in government in London and their commitment to austerity are set on a direct collision with the entire basis of the Good Friday Agreement, warns Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney Free article

Author of 'Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland' in Australia from 20 June

1 June 2015

Anne Cadwallader of the Pat Finucane Centre in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Free article

'Where is the Secretary of State?' – Relatives for Justice react to Panorama investigations

29 May 2015

Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice tells Stephen Nolan on Radio Ulster there was information and interviews that hadn't been seen before the 'Panorama' probe Free article

BBC Panorama revelations show collusion by RUC and British Army was systemic, says Gerry Kelly MLA

29 May 2015

Former Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan told the BBC probe that some agents recruited by the British Army and the RUC in the UDA, UVF and LVF were 'serial killers' Free article

'Recall the Dáil' over Denis O'Brien's muzzling of media, says Gerry Adams

29 May 2015

Legal threats by controversial businessman Denis O'Brien threatens the freedom of the press and are direct attack on the right of Oireachtas representatives to speak freely in the public interest in the Dáil and Seanad Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 25

29 May 2015

Series by Mícheál Mac Donncha chronicling the road to the 1916 Rising as seen through the pages of An tÓglach – the Irish Volunteer from 24 April 1915 to 22 April 1916 Free article

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