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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

Republicans honour Volunteers Patricia Black and Frankie Ryan

16 November 2016

Tributes paid to comrades who lost their lives on active service in England in the fight for Irish freedom Free article

Donald Trump and ‘Enemies of the People’

14 November 2016

The politics of Trump, poppies and Brexit are stark examples of how news reporting is failing citizens Free article

British Government is mocking victims’ families on legacy issues

13 November 2016

‘As more time passes, family members are beginning to die. Important witness evidence is being lost. The British Government is playing for time. It is a political scandal.’ Free article

Fearon calls for referendum on Irish unity

13 November 2016

Sinn Féin Junior Minister and Newry and Armagh MLA Megan Fearon has called on the British government to hold a referendum on Irish unity. Free article

Lansdowne Road Agreement ‘has run out of road’, Mary Lou McDonald tells major trade union conference

12 November 2016

Urgent need to begin process of reaching a new agreement and addressing the issue of equal pay for equal work Free article

All-Ireland support for Irish language – new independent research report ‘Céard É An Scéal?’

12 November 2016

Conradh na Gaeilge launches second report in research series at Oireachtas Festival – statistics show great interest in learning Irish both North and South Free article

PSNI chief says hurls are not offensive weapons

10 November 2016

Facebook video posted by police in response to community outcry over PSNI warning during routine traffic stop Free article

Ruth Dudley Edwards says BBC forcing nationalists to wear poppy should be legally challenged

10 November 2016

Call by Danny Morrison supported by ‘Sunday Independent’ columnist Free article

Plécháipéis Ghaeilge Shinn Féin Seolta ag Oireachtas na Samhna

10 November 2016

Sheol Sinn Féin plécháipéis nua ag Oireachtas na Samhna ar na mallaibh. Sheol an Feisire den Pharlaimint Eorpach Liadh Ní Riada an cháipéis ag plé painéil faoin téama ‘I dTreo Polasaí Nua’ Free article

Connolly comrade Winifred Carney’s portrait unveiled in Belfast by great-nephew

10 November 2016

1916 Irish republican socialist hero from County Down returned north and involved herself in the political and military struggles that followed the Rising Free article

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