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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

Limerick Mayors murdered by Black and Tans – Remembering the Past

7 March 2015

Mrs Clancy, in struggling with the murderers, was shot through the arm Free article

Sinn Féin says no to a Government led by Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

6 March 2015

Fine Gael/Labour is a government ‘that picked up the Fianna Fáil playbook and took it to a whole other level’ Free article

'Sinn Féin doesn’t do austerity – We do equality,' says Martin McGuinness at Ard Fheis in Derry

6 March 2015

‘The welfare protections we agreed are an absolute red line issue for Sinn Féin’ Free article

Labour retreats from previous Dáil position on Neutrality Bill and capitulates to Fine Gael

6 March 2015

'Successive Irish governments have clearly breached the Hague Convention and sold Irish neutrality piece by piece against the wishes of the people' – Seán Crowe TD Free article

Every vote will count in North Belfast, Gerry Kelly says as he launches Westminster campaign

5 March 2015

‘Our office on the Antrim Road is increasingly representing people from across the communities because Sinn Féin delivers’ Free article

Déan an tAthrú – Make the change – Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2015

5 March 2015

Activists from all over Ireland in Derry this weekend for the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis . Free article

Belfast to Bethlehem – running against Israeli apartheid

5 March 2015

Belfast-based but Derry-born Ryan Moore, who runs wearing a vest emblazoned with the Palestinian flag, is raising much-needed funds for the medical charity Medical Aid for Palestinians Free article

Labour TDs urged to again back Neutrality Bill – Dáil debate Friday

4 March 2015

In 2003, Labour was in Opposition; today, it is in Government but Sinn Fén TD Seán Crowe says the principles are the same Free article

Sindo hacks crying into their beer over Shinners shunning Dáil bar

3 March 2015

Irish newshounds are unhappy that Sinn Féin TDs and staff don't leak details of internal meetings to them in the Dáil bar Free article

Mary Lou to Tánaiste – 'Bring it on'

3 March 2015

Mary Lou McDonald takes up Joan Burton's challenge, telling her she'll debate her – 'Anytime, any place' Free article

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