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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