Francis Hughes – Died on 12 May 1981 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks
10 May 2024
The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th Century and of the Irish Republican Army. Free article
UVF linked to attack on Catholic woman (18) in Rangers supporters' club
13 May 2013
It has been confirmed to 'An Phoblacht' that the main instigators of the attack at the 1st Belfast Rangers Club are thought to be senior members of the UVF in south Belfast and are well-known in the community Free article
Video – United Ireland 10k and family walk a huge success
13 May 2013
Border criss-crossed several times by local communities in unity initiative Free article
First Annual James Connolly Summer School takes place in Dublin
13 May 2013
THE first annual James Connolly summer school in Ballybough, Dublin, on Saturday saw a day of lively debates and presentations from progressive voices in Irish Left politics including one on ‘The Reconquest of Ireland and Future of the Left’ Free article
'NATO or neutrality?' Public debate in Dublin, Tuesday 14 May
12 May 2013
Hosted by Peace & Neutrality Alliance, Sinn Féin, Irish Anti-War Movement, Socialist Party, People Before Profit Alliance Free article
Video: Gerry Adams meets family of slain prison officer – to meet again
9 May 2013
Gerry Adams this evening met the family of Chief Prison Officer Brian Stack at Leinster House. Free article
Charity clothes bin thieves slip by Garda computer net
9 May 2013
Garda hi-tech computer cannot tell how many good causes are being fleeced of cash by hoods robbing charity clothes bins, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has confessed to Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty Free article
Women affected by domestic violence need more refuge places to turn to, Seanad told
9 May 2013
Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh reminds Seanad that the Council of Europe sets out a recommendation of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population ‘and the Government are way off that target’ Free article
Video: Stopping the fluoridation of public water – new Dáil move
9 May 2013
The 26-County state is one of only four EU states that continues the practice – water is not fluoridated in the North of Ireland, Scotland, most of England or Wales Free article
Bobby Sands remembered – Sunday 5 May
9 May 2013
THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Among those who gathered in Andersonstown near Sinn Féin’s West Belfast office were former Hunger Striker Jackie McMullan and many other republican former prisoners, members of Kieran Doherty’s family, and Paul Maskey, MP for West Belfast. Free article
Headline-grabbing Fine Gael TD’s PA makes international news
9 May 2013
Anti-republican zealot caught on CCTV shovelling up bundles of a local free paper criticising his boss, Derek Keating TD Free article
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