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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

Fidel Castro RIP – Tributes by Gerry Adams in Belfast and at Free Derry Wall

27 November 2016

Book of Condolences opened at Cuban Embassy in Dublin Free article

Councils in North call for votes for Irish citizens in Presidential election

26 November 2016

Derry City & Strabane and Mid Ulster vote for equal rights Free article

Victim’s grandson calls out PSNI chief over ‘cover-up’ ahead of McGurk’s Bar bombing anniversary

25 November 2016

‘The British state and the police perverted the course of justice and covered up the true circumstances of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre’ Free article

Police ‘conspiracy of silence’ in death of US citizen injured after being stopped by RUC patrol

24 November 2016

39-year-old John Hemsworth was assaulted in the early hours of 7 July 1997 in west Belfast. Later that year he became ill, was admitted to hospital and died on 1 January 1998. Free article

Teenager’s body exhumed in hunt for British Army death squad evidence

23 November 2016

Daniel Rooney was 18 when he was gunned down by the British Army’s notorious Military Reaction Force (MRF) in September 1972 Free article

Reconciliation cannot be a one-way process, Martin McGuinness says in appeal for ‘mature leadership’ from unionism

23 November 2016

Archbishop of Canterbury’s Chief of Staff and Strategy, Canon David Porter, previously the church’s Director of Reconciliation, speaks at launch of Sinn Féin’s ‘A Pathway to a Better Future’ Free article

Reconciliation is an imperative – not an option

21 November 2016

Reconciliation will not be built upon resentment and recrimination Free article

On This Day 1920 – Bloody Sunday spies executed by IRA and British reprisals at Croke Park

21 November 2016

British forces murder GAA players and fans at Croke Park in reprisal for devastating blow to British Intelligence in Dublin by IRA Free article

Rally hears calls for RUC members in Pearse Jordan killing to be investigated for perjury

16 November 2016

Even Judge Horner said during the inquest that the police officers had been ‘untruthful’ and that one or both may have edited log books Free article

Turkey stops HDP MP from briefing TDs on Ankara’s crackdown on Kurds and opposition

16 November 2016

Turkish Government pushing the country further ‘along the path to a dictatorship and the very real possibility of a civil war’, Sinn Féin TD warns after meeting pro-Kurdish activists Free article

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