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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

200 rally against loyalist flags in south Belfast and DUP inaction

24 June 2017

Community mobilises after DUP MP Emma Little-Pengelly’s indifference to UVF ‘marking their territory’ in mixed housing area Free article

Brexit – Irish Government priority in talks must be Designated Special Status Within EU for North

23 June 2017

The fact that Simon Coveney, the Irish Government's Minister for Foreign Affairs, has now indicated his support for Designated Special Status for the North is welcome Free article

Sinn Féin to nominate ‘An Phoblacht’ former editor as Mayor of Dublin

22 June 2017

Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha’s name to be put forward at Monday’s AGM for Ardmhéara Free article

UVF flags erected in cross-community housing scheme brushed off by new DUP MP

21 June 2017

‘The DUP MP should use her influence with those responsible to demand they be removed’ – Sinn Féin MLA Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Free article

Unionism urged to join debate on shaping a new and agreed Ireland

21 June 2017

In the Westminster election, unionist parties failed to secure 50% of the vote for the first time in the northern state despite pitching it as a referendum on the Union Free article

DUP ‘living in a fool’s paradise’ if they think Tory deal means return to Executive without changing

18 June 2017

DUP and Arlene Foster need to embrace a rights-based approach to government in the North, says Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney Free article

Wolfe Tone, the founding figure of Irish republicanism – National commemoration Sunday in Bodenstown

17 June 2017

Wolfe Tone is regarded as the founding figure of Irish republicanism because of his pioneering commitment to a democratic, non-sectarian Ireland and his ceaseless effort and ultimate sacrifice for Irish freedom Free article