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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

Homeless crisis campaign drive with TV3 weatherman Martin King video by Simon Community

1 September 2015

Public urged to one-click emails to Taoiseach and Tánaiste Free article

Jim Cusack's Fantasy Island

1 September 2015

IRA plot to seize power and do away with democracy and elections revealed by top Irish Independent – 'a few years later' Free article

'Labour and Fine Gael have no democratic mandate to implement Water Charges'

31 August 2015

Mary Lou McDonald TD says huge Right2Water rally and mass opposition to Water Charges means Government has no option but to scrap unfair charge Free article

Mary Lou McDonald hits back at 'abusive slurs' against Sinn Féin

31 August 2015

Sinn Féin deputy leader says Fianna Fáil's and Labour's unsubstantiated blanket allegations against her party are aimed at ingratiating themselves to certain media outlets ahead of the general election Free article

The Sunday papers

30 August 2015

Reliable anti-republican hacks and so-called 'commentators' who spent their lives working against the development of a peace process re-emerge and are painted as neutral commentators Free article

85,000 march against Water Charges in Dublin

29 August 2015

Huge numbers at Right2Water rally opposing household Water Charges Free article

Sinn Féin National Chairperson acknowledges 'without exception' the loss and pain of all sides

28 August 2015

PSNI Chief Constable shares platform with Sinn Féin just days after the PSNI's disputed statements claiming the continued existence of the IRA Free article

Tim Brannigan tweets on meeting Maskey MP

28 August 2015

Author and commentator on his frank exchange of views with Sinn Féin Free article

PSNI Chief Constable reiterates confidence in Sinn Féin's commitment to exclusively peaceful means

28 August 2015

PSNI and Sinn Féin in 'Uncomfortable Conversations' debate at Gasyard Féile in Derry Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2, Number 38

28 August 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

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