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
Mary Lou McDonald to speak at ‘Flowers for Magdalenes’ in Glasnevin next Sunday
27 February 2017
Families and children asked to bring flowers to lay in memory of Magdalene women Free article
Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes raised in Dáil by Sinn Féin TD
24 February 2017
Students stop Israeli Ambassador’s propaganda event at Trinity College Dublin Free article
Sinn Féin TD tells Westminster Brexit Committee MPs in Dublin that North needs special status
23 February 2017
Brexit challenges the integrity of the Good Friday Agreement, Seán Crowe tells Tories and Labour Free article
An exchange on prisoners
23 February 2017
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin cautions Finian McGrath on the Government benches Free article
Irish citizens abroad ‘need more than a candle in the window’
23 February 2017
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Diaspora groups repeat calls for minister to meet them Free article
‘We are in the business of taking power’ – Feargal O’Hanlon Memorial Lecture, Monaghan
21 February 2017
60th anniversary of Brookeborough raid, 1957 Free article
DUP leader too sick to take questions at manifesto launch – but well enough to deliver tirade attacking Sinn Féin
20 February 2017
Desperate Unionist Party’s ‘Project Fear’ leaves unionists in despair Free article
Sinn Féin will only be part of institutions that work and deliver for all – Michelle O’Neill
20 February 2017
‘We have striven to make these institutions work to the benefit of every citizen’ Free article
Taoiseach’s rejection of Dáil vote on North special status within EU ‘a grave mistake’ – Gerry Adams
17 February 2017
Sinn Féin leader calls for publication of a White Paper on Brexit outlining the Irish Government’s strategic policies and economic, trade and political objectives Free article
CETA passed by European Parliament – resistance moves to Dáil and national parliaments
15 February 2017
Fine Gael MEPs back hugely controversial EU-Canada trade deal opposed by Sinn Féin MEPs (pictured above) and Independent MEPs Free article
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