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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

3 June 1974 – Óglach Michael Gaughan dies on hunger strike in England

3 June 2017

‘Let there be no bitterness on my behalf but a determination to achieve the new Ireland for which I gladly die.’ Free article

Loughinisland victim’s daughter calls SDLP attacks on Chris Hazzard ‘disgusting’

1 June 2017

SDLP’s Margaret Ritchie urged to distance herself from her party’s ‘crass’ point scoring against Sinn Féin rival Free article

‘New Lodge Six’ families apply to Attorney General for new inquest

1 June 2017

Six men were killed by British soldiers on the night of 3/4 February 1973 Free article

Western Sahara – European Commission ‘ignoring’ of UN-recognised Polisario Front on EU-Morocco Agreement raised in Dáil

1 June 2017

Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco and no state officially recognises Morocco’s claim to the territory Free article

‘Liar, Liar’ Theresa May song makes it to Number 10 – in the charts

31 May 2017

Anti-Tory tune could even be a chart topper by polling day Free article

SDLP backs Border poll after Brexit negotiations end – Gerry Adams welcomes move

30 May 2017

All Dáil parties claiming to support a united Ireland should join calls for ‘Unity Referendum’ Free article

2017 BAFTA winner Ken Loach says it’s important that John Finucane is elected MP in North Belfast

30 May 2017

‘It will affirm that good principles can defeat bigotry and prejudice,’ says film-maker Free article

DUP still stonewalling over Brexit ‘dark money’ and shady sources

29 May 2017

Billboard launched in Belfast as DUP refuses to say who gave unionists £435,000 to fight against Brexit in Britain Free article

The Manchester atrocity and Sinn Féin’s condemnation – Declan Kearney

26 May 2017

In this latest blog, Sinn Féin chairperson Declan Kearney MLA writes that the aftermath of the Manchester arena bombing and the attempts by some at political recrimination highlights the need for reconciliation and healing in the peace process. Free article

Commemoration Saturday for Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty, shot dead stopping a UVF bombing in Dublin, 1994

26 May 2017

Martin ‘Doco’Doherty was killed in Dublin by the UVF on 21 May 1994 as he stopped the unionists detonating a bomb at a Sinn Féin function in a packed Pearse Street pub Free article

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