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
‘Home Sweet Home’ asks supporters to join in march to Finance Minister’s office – Tuesday 12 noon
2 January 2017
The state has failed to engage with the campaigners and residents in Apollo House, leaving residents and those supporting them feeling uncertain about their future Free article
Arlene Foster must step aside to allow ‘robust’ investigation into RHI debacle, says Martin McGuinness in New Year message
1 January 2017
Public confidence in North’s political institutions grievously undermined by the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal and the DUP’s failure to deal with it Free article
Meeting the challenge of 2017 – Gerry Adams’s New Year message
31 December 2016
DUP and Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil serving their own interests and damaging credibility Free article
US border agents with Homeland Security ask visitors for social media profiles
28 December 2016
Programme is billed as voluntary but civil liberties groups fear many will feel under pressure to comply Free article
Phonsie Mac Fhirleigheann, south Derry H-Blocks Blanketman, laid to rest in County Meath
28 December 2016
‘No words could ever do justice to the energy and efforts that were invested by Phonsie into the republican project right up until last week’ Free article
Irish victims of London police spy scandal demand inclusion in Westminster inquiry
22 December 2016
‘I’m hoping to find out why I was targeted in Ireland by one of the most elite undercover officers of the British state’ Free article
Make 2017 a springboard to raise international support for Irish unity
21 December 2016
‘Building Alliances for a Europe of Solidarity’, European Left 5th Congress in Berlin – Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney MLA on the case for Left unity and Irish unity Free article
Stormont crisis deepened by Monday’s events in Assembly, says Gerry Adams
20 December 2016
Sinn Féin wants a ‘robust’, time-framed investigation to establish the facts, restore the integrity of the institutions and recover what money can be saved from RHI scandal Free article
Dale Moore, committed republican fighter and activist, laid to rest in Derry
17 December 2016
“He didn’t complain, he got on with what needed done,” said Mitchel McLaughlin in a sentence that summed up the life and character of this courageous, dedicated, good-natured, lifelong republican activist Free article
Martin McGuinness calls on First Minister Arlene Foster to ‘step aside’ during ‘Cash for Ash’ probe
16 December 2016
Pressure piles on DUP leader after former DUP minister’s claims on BBC TV’s ‘Stephen Nolan Show’ Free article
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