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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

Sexism storm rains down on DUP leader’s head

15 May 2017

‘There is no right or wrong way to look, and women are in positions of leadership because we belong, representing everyone equally’ – Michelle O’Neill Free article

Palestine flag over Dublin City Hall – ‘The Irish Times’ didn’t print this letter

15 May 2017

Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha writes back Free article

Francis Hughes – Died on 12 May 1981 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks

12 May 2017

The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th Century and of the Irish Republican Army. Free article

DUP illusions running out of road

11 May 2017

In his latest blog, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA has said the DUP are speaking with a forked tongue on equality and other outstanding issues. Free article

Orange Order refuses to deny it’s running unionist registration from halls

11 May 2017

‘The Orange institution is now encouraging people to vote for pro-Brexit, pro-austerity and anti-equality parties against the wishes of the majority of people in the North’ Free article

Nakba anniversary speaking tour of Ireland by Palestinian academic and refugee Kholoud Ajarma

11 May 2017

In 1947-49, the Nakba (Arabic for “Catastrophe”) saw over 700,000 Palestinians forcibly dispossessed and exiled from their homeland to facilitate the creation of the state of Israel Free article