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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

Gerry Adams’s statement to Dáil on killing of Chief Prison Officer Brian Stack

7 December 2016

‘The shooting of Brian Stack was wrong. It was a grievous loss for his family and should never have happened’ Free article

Several hundred protest at Dáil for cystic fibrosis drug – Gerry Adams presses Taoiseach at Leaders’ Questions

7 December 2016

‘Many families are valiantly battling for the opportunity to access the potentially life-changing drug’ – Gerry Adams Free article

Thinking about Palestine and meeting Hamas . . . on Brigid’s birthday

6 December 2016

Whatever about Western – or even Irish – ideological, political or theological views of Hamas, it exists as an integral part of Palestinian society and its diaspora Free article

Michael Mansfield QC accuses British Government over Ballymurphy inquest delays

4 December 2016

Coroner refuses date for inquest because London blocks £10million funding for 50 conflict-related inquests into deaths of almost 100 people Free article

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leaders’ ‘opportunist and contemptible’ attack – Gerry Adams responds

2 December 2016

‘I am not surprised at the way in which Sinn Féin’s political opponents have dealt with this, but my meetings with the Stack family and my agreement to try to help was done in good faith’ – Gerry Adams Free article

We can’t afford a pay rise? We can’t afford a low-income and high-cost society

2 December 2016

Significant rises in the cost of health, housing, education, childcare and transport have put enormous pressure on Irish households Free article

Why do Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil deny Irish citizens a vote in electing the President of Ireland?

1 December 2016

One day Mícheál Martin is in Belfast saying he’ll stand up for Irish citizens, on another day when he’s back in Dublin . . . Free article

Fidel Castro – People’s Book of Condolences opened by Sinn Féin at Belfast City Hall

30 November 2016

Respects shown to one of the major figures of the 20th century Free article

Tyrone Volunteers Day addressed by H-Blocks ex-POW Ian Milne MLA

30 November 2016

‘These were people who, because of the unfinished business of uniting Ireland, the experience of oppression and discrimination, stepped forward and joined the IRA.’ Free article