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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

Irish-America concerned over Brexit impact on North

9 September 2016

Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd MLA was meeting with Irish-American leaders in Washington and Philadelphia on consequences of Brexit for Ireland Free article

Transport Minister AWOL amid Dublin Bus strike dispute

9 September 2016

Criticism levelled at Transport Minister Shane Ross as Dublin Bus strike continues Free article

Couple donate wedding presents to Belfast-based Gaza charity

8 September 2016

Bríd Keenan and Peadar Whelan donate money they received as wedding presents to the Belfast-based Palestinian support group Light for Gaza Free article

Dublin 'Walk of Hope' on International Suicide Prevention Day

7 September 2016

Senator Máire Devine encourages community to take part in vigil to mark International Suicide Prevention Day Free article

Inside – Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

7 September 2016

Exhibition honouring Oscar Wilde features Irish republican themes and subjects, including an imagined letter from IRA Volunteer Reginald Dunne to the leader of the IRA in London after the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson in 1922 Free article

Republican prison crafts central to prison history project

6 September 2016

Unique exhibition at Belfast's Conway Mill of Irish republican prison crafts Free article

British Government should pay for legacy inquests, says Chief Justice

5 September 2016

The most senior legal figure in the North has said the British Government should pay for legacy inquests into conflict-related deaths Free article

Disrupting the community and ‘being played by the Dark Side’

5 September 2016

Eighteen years after the Good Friday Agreement, British security and intelligence services continue to exert a toxic influence in the North of Ireland Free article

Sectarian hate targets Holy Cross schoolchildren – This week in 2001

3 September 2016

The ugly nature of loyalism was exposed on Ardoyne Road in north Belfast when Catholic schoolchildren, some as young as four, were attacked by baying mobs as they returned to school for the new term Free article

Apple Tax scandal: Dáil recall as Independents back Fine Gael appeal

2 September 2016

Independent TDs back plan to appeal €13billion Apple Tax investigation as Sinn Féin accuses Establishment parties of being in the pocket of big business Free article

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