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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

Tour of the North tension fuelled by Orange Order's court challenge

22 June 2015

Parade passes peacefully but Orange Order move against Parades Commission ruling on controversial bands passing St Patrick's Catholic Church strains credibility Free article

Video – Thousands honour Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown

22 June 2015

Big crowds in Kildare to remember the 'father of Irish republicanism' Free article

Belfast youth fast in solidarity with Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan

21 June 2015

Khader Adnan was kidnapped on 8 July 2014 and has since been held under 'Administrative Detention' orders without charges or trial Free article

SIPTU launches international online petition in support of Clerys workers

19 June 2015

The petition makes a simple demand – that the new owners of Clerys meet the workers Free article

Sinn Féin and SNP discuss resistance to Tory cuts

19 June 2015

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness meets Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to discuss broad-based campaign to oppose Tory cuts Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 28

19 June 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

Watch – Tory cuts will continue to be opposed, Belfast rally hears

18 June 2015

TORY CUTS will continue to be opposed by Sinn Féin was the clear message from scores of party activists and elected representatives at a meeting in Belfast on Wednesday 17 June to discuss party strategy.

MEP Martina Anderson visits Mediterranean migrant centres in Lampedusa

18 June 2015

'No one who has visited those reception centres could fail to be moved by the harrowing experiences of the migrants, both during the crossing and the circumstances that led them to make such a perilous journey' Free article

Tánaiste refuses to confirm if she will meet family of collusion victim Eddie Fullerton

18 June 2015

Irish Government accused of "sitting on its hands" in relation to challenging British Government to open up files on collusion with unionist murder gangs in murders of Irish citizens Free article

Irish Government action on collusion 'simply not good enough'

17 June 2015

Foreign Affairs Minister challenged over Government's failure to confront British Government on killing of hundreds of Irish citizens Free article

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