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Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News

12 June 2026

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. Free article

Belfast City Hall rally says “Refugees Welcome in Ireland”

8 September 2015

Sinn Féin Mayor drives home message of support for refugees Free article

Teenage republican shot dead by UVF honoured in Lower Ormeau ceremony

7 September 2015

40th anniversary of the death of Fian Jim Templeton marked across the generations of republicans Free article

Minister backs down over claims Northern produce is 'not Irish'

7 September 2015

Labour Party Minister of State Aodhán Ó Riordáin deletes tweets implying produce from North of Ireland is not Irish after online criticism Free article

McGuinness says British Government threat to impose welfare cuts a 'huge mistake'

7 September 2015

Secretary of State warned to back down on threat to implement welfare cuts in North over the heads of the Executive Free article

Irish citizens 'pledge a bed' to take more than 1,000 refugees into their homes

4 September 2015

Government inaction on refugee crisis sees hundreds of citizens "pledging a bed" in their own homes to refugees Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2, Number 39

4 September 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

Refugees crisis – Ireland should do more, say Sinn Féin leaders

3 September 2015

'We all have a responsibility to do everything in our power to alleviate this growing humanitarian crisis' – Martin McGuinness Free article

Fennelly Report: Labour and Attorney General at odds with each other

3 September 2015

Motions of no confidence in Attorney General and Taoiseach as report into Garda Commissioner's resignation raises more questions Free article

A united Ireland will deliver a stronger economy and a just, equal and fair society

3 September 2015

No one given the task of designing the best economic, social and political model for an island of 6.4million people would dream of separating the north-east corner from the rest of the country and, in turn, creating two separate competing currencies, tax systems, legal frameworks and two administration Free article

Taoiseach's spin on Fennelly Report simply not convincing – must consider his position

2 September 2015

Calls for Dáil to be recalled as Fennelly Report on resignation of Garda Commissioner raises serious questions for Taoiseach Free article

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