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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

Fine Gael/Labour leaders reminded they sit with Sinn Féin ministers on all-Ireland Ministerial Council

20 February 2016

Progress in the North cannot be collateral damage in the election campaigns of Fine Gael/Labour and Fianna Fáil, Martin McGuinness tells election rally for Offaly Sinn Féin candidate Carol Nolan Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 63

19 February 2016

Series by Mícheál Mac Donncha chronicling the road to the 1916 Rising as seen through the pages of An tÓglach – The Irish Volunteer from 24 April 1915 to 22 April 1916 Free article

Bernie Sanders's letter to Margaret Thatcher over 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strikes

19 February 2016

US Presidential candidate appealed to Thatcher to end intransigence against Hunger Strikers Free article

100 MEPs call on EU to take PKK Kurdish resistance off of 'terrorist' list

18 February 2016

Sinn Féin, Green Party and SNP MEPs sign petition Free article

Irish Independent's skewed propaganda broadside against Sinn Féin

18 February 2016

String of articles attacking Sinn Féin penned by Indo Editor husband of rival candidate Free article

Sinn Féin will stop domestic water charges – North and South

18 February 2016

Conor Murphy MLA, the Sinn Féin minister who stopped domestic water charges in the Six Counties, has urged people to support Saturday's Right2Water/Right2Change rally Free article