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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

Proposal to reduce Property Tax in Wexford blocked by FF, FG and Labour

7 October 2015

Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Independents oppose move to reduce Family Home Tax Free article

UDA blamed for Derry pipe bomb attack 'hate crime'

7 October 2015

Device exploded on window sill of woman from LGBT community Free article

Immediate international protection needed for Palestinian civilians, says Martina Anderson

7 October 2015

'Three young Palestinians were killed over this weekend alone. One was Abed al-Rahman Obeidallah, a 13-year-old boy. Over 500 Palestinians have been wounded, almost 200 of them with live fire' Free article

Unionist leaders silent following UDA statement

7 October 2015

Unionists who have been at pains to justify faux outrage and walkout from Stormont, silent following UDA statement Free article

Modular housing agreed by Dublin City councillors – as an emergency measure

6 October 2015

'We in Sinn Féin see this as just one small part of the solution to the housing crisis. It is no substitute for the construction of council housing for rent and affordable housing for purchase' Free article

Ireland's hunger strikers remembered in Cuba

5 October 2015

Gerry Adams praises people of Cuba for their resilience as relations between USA and Cuba enter new era Free article

British Government barriers to finding truth behind UDA sectarian murder

5 October 2015

Vital evidence 'goes missing', police and military documents withheld, others heavily redacted Free article

Housing Minister must rescue Longboat Quay residents from €2million safety bill

2 October 2015

Emergency motion tabled to Monday's meeting of Dublin City Council Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 43

2 October 2015

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 exit from EU would undermine political progress in the North and all-Ireland economic recovery

1 October 2015

Any withdrawal by the British state from the EU – partial or total – and its formal repeal or erosion of human rights protections has significant, negative implications for Ireland, North and South, argues Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney Free article

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