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Hunger Strike Exhibition
The Louis Leonard Sinn Féin Cumann will host a Hunger Strike Exhibition in St Mary’s Parish Hall in Newtownbutler, on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October. Opening times: Friday 12 noon to 10pm; Saturday 10am to late

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1 October 1977: Seán Ó CONAILL, Sinn Féin (Parkhurst Prison)
1 October 1996: Pat McGEOWN, Sinn Féin
2 October 1971: Volunteer Terence McDERMOTT, Belfast Brigade, 1st Battalion
2 October 1978: Volunteer Pat HARKIN, Derry Brigade
6 October 1972: Volunteer Daniel McAREAVEY, Belfast Brigade, 2nd Battalion
9 October 1976: Noel JENKINSON, Sinn Féin (Leicester Prison)
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BY IAN McBRIDE

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H-BLOCKS Hunger Striker Paddy Quinn, from south Armagh, told the Volunteer Charlie McGlade Commemoration in Dublin that the best monument that could be given to Charlie McGlade, his Hunger Strike comrades and all those who have given their lives for Irish freedom is to build the Republic which they fought and died for. “This can only be given to... Free article

HE ICONIC MEMORY of the Dublin v Kerry 2011 All-Ireland final that will stay with me will not be Stephen Cluxton’s free floating into a seat of blue. Nor even Kevin McMenamon’s eerie recreation of a certain goal in 1977 also involving a Brogan.
Oh, don’t get me wrong! I will never tire of watching that. And even repeated viewings of the game have failed to stop the incredible... Free article

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TÁ 2016 ag teannadh linn go tapaidh agus tá sé níos tráthúla ná ariamh go mbeadh muid mar náisiún ag féachaint siar ar an áit as a dtáinig muid agus ag féachaint chun cinn chomh maith ar an áit ar mhaith linn a bheith mar thír nuair a bheidh comóradh céad bliain an Éirí Amach dhá chomóradh againn.
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THE British Ministry of Defence’s offer of compensation to the 14 defenceless civil rights marchers gunned down and the dozens injured by the elite Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972 has been rejected by some of the relatives.
Thirteen unarmed protesters died after being shot by soldiers of the British Army’s 1 Para regiment in the Bogside area of Derry on... Free article

AIB bank’s weekend plea to the Fine Gael/Labour Government to set aside its half-a-million salary ceiling for bank chiefs should be rejected outright, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams TD told the Taoiseach in the Dáil on Tuesday.

Enda Kenny said he wants to hear from Finance Minister Michael Noonan his view on the case being put forward by AIB.

The Sinn Féin president said:

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SIX leading Irish sporting stars have lent their support to the MV Saoirse, the Irish ship sabotaged in the western Turkish port of Gocek in late June as it was preparing to sail for Gaza with Freedom Flotilla 2. Most of the other ships in the flotilla were stranded in Greece when that country's government, under pressure from Israel, refused to allow them to sail for Gaza to... Free article