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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

Belfast bomb attack on prison officer – 'futile actions' should end

4 March 2016

Sinn Féin says those behind attack have nothing to offer community Free article

'Irish Independent' apologises to Gerry Adams over untruthful reporting

4 March 2016

Yet another apology from the Irish Independent over its appalling coverage of Sinn Féin Free article

3 March 1976 – Spanish police shoot five dead during Basque general strike

3 March 2016

Each year on the anniversary of the massacre, thousands still gather in Gasteiz to demand justice for the five who were murdered by fascist dictator Franco's police Free article

Hunger Strike 35th anniversary picket by ex-prisoners and internees

2 March 2016

H-Blocks martyrs honoured by comrades Free article

Dáil election 2016: The two-party system is over

2 March 2016

After weeks of vilification in the media and laughable claims that the party is 'soft on crime', it was fitting to see Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin top the poll ahead of Fine Gael Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Free article