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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

'A United Ireland Is Inevitable: Discuss' – This Saturday in Omagh

28 January 2016

DUP and Independent Unionist MLAs to debate issue with range of speakers Free article

Dáil election a choice between failed politics of Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil or radical change with Sinn Féin – Gerry Adams

28 January 2016

Poll-topping TD for Louth appeals for more people to vote for change and vote Sinn Féin Free article

Tesco giant wants workers to pay for executives' mistakes with pay cuts

27 January 2016

'Competitiveness' used to attack agreed wages and condition Free article

Racist arson attack in unionist Village

27 January 2016

Young couple and two sons, 5 and 3, targeted in hate crime Free article

Waxwork of Gerry Adams unveiled at National Wax Museum

27 January 2016

Wax figure is part of museum's Good Friday Agreement exhibition Free article

From 24 January 1981 – H-Block setbacks and latest assassination attempt mean . . . VIGILANCE VITAL

24 January 2016

“A resumption of H-Block/Armagh protests will also mean attempts on the lives of campaign organisers, like that last week upon Bernadette McAliskey” Free article

'Kurdish people will never be stopped by violence' – HDP Congress meets in Turkey

24 January 2016

Tribute paid to hundreds of friends and comrades lost in the massacres in Suruç, Diyarbakir and Ankara as well as those killed in the past months under military curfew Free article