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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

British minister Villiers's self-serving speech on anniversary of Pat Finucane murder provokes anger

16 February 2016

“It is in the name of that legacy that I and so many others ask for the one remaining thing that the British state can give us – the truth behind the killings” – Pat's wife Geraldine Finucane Free article

999 workers to strike on the day before Dáil general election

15 February 2016

Navan call centre staff in 12-hour stoppage but Ballyshannon and Dublin will operate as normal, says Communication Workers' Union Free article

Desperate Government's 'fear offensive' against Sinn Féin

15 February 2016

Fine Gael and Labour scheme to frighten voters after poll rise for Sinn Féin as Government ratings drop Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 62

12 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

British military and security services directly blocking progress on legacy

11 February 2016

Theresa Villiers’s University of Ulster speech has deepened, not lessened, the impasse which is stopping progress on dealing with the past Free article