Doco’s actions in stopping the UVF bombing of the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin in 1994 undoubtedly prevented a massacre at the packed function Free article

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

Sinn Féin calls for Dáil time on Tuesday for Justice Minister to address his use of personal information to damage TD Free article

Justice for the Forgotten commemoration on Talbot Street, Dublin, on Friday to remember the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 Free article

US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs sub-committee hears appeal from Pat’s son to press British Government to honour promise of public inquiry into 1989 murder Free article

Total Seanad reform – including making it more representative and elections open to all voters – should be referred to the Constitutional Convention and referendum cancelled Free article

Left-wing TDs argue against Irish involvement in NATO while ex-Irish Defence Forces officer and former NATO committee director say it will benefit the state Free article

The Tory/LibDem British Government has reneged on its predecessor’s St Andrews commitment for a significant Peace Dividend agreed with the Irish Government and with the US through their Special Envoy Free article

Son of murdered Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane to give evidence Free article

Republicans and socialists from across Belfast’s political spectrum turned out for a ceremony to remember socialist republican James Connolly on the 97th anniversary of his execution by the British on 12 May 1916. Free article