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Paris salute to H-Block martyrs

CONOR MURPHY MP and Séanna Walsh, one of Bobby Sands’s comrades in jail, laid a wreath in memory of the H-Block hunger strikers at Bobby Sands Street in Paris in a ceremony hosted by the Mayor of Saint-Denis before the France v Ireland World Cup rugby match.
Mayor Didier Paillard recalled:
“When Bobby Sands died in May 1981, 100,000 French people marched to the British Embassy to tell Margaret Thatcher how angry we were, and of our admiration and support for this young hero and his comrades.”
Extending Irish republicans’ appreciation for the internationalism and solidarity shown by people in France and across the world during the H-Block hunger strike and since, Conor Murphy said that such support was crucial and gave people in Ireland a lift in a time of great turmoil and struggle.

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