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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

‘Snap’ protest at DUP office over Irish language comments by Arlene Foster

7 February 2017

Crocodiles rock up at Nelson McCausland’s HQ Free article

Hundreds remember dead of Bookies Massacre by UDA British agents

6 February 2017

A VZ58 Czech-made assault rifle used in the attack was among the guns smuggled into Ireland by British Army undercover agent and UDA intelligence chief Brian Nelson Free article

Whose safety was the PSNI worried about in allowing the Union flag protesters to run riot?

3 February 2017

There is an important point being missed in the reporting after this week’s Supreme Court ruling against the PSNI Free article

European Left parties call for a ‘united and ambitious alternative’ to EU austerity to combat rise of Right

2 February 2017

Podemos, Die Linke, Front de Gauche, SYRIZA, Left Bloc and Red-Green Alliance sign joint declaration with Sinn Féin Free article

Waterboarding torture by Parachute Regt in Ireland – Channel 4 reveals secret evidence

1 February 2017

Allegations were known to and accepted by the Irish Government as well as the British Government Free article

‘No welcome for British ministers at GAA games till legacy issues addressed,’ say Relatives for Justice

1 February 2017

There needs to be a ‘clear and unambiguous message that adopts a zero tolerance’ of the behaviour of Westminster’s unelected representative to the North, says RFJ Director Free article