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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

West Belfast's Paul Maskey ready for Westminster challenges

3 March 2015

Gerry Adams at Felons' Club convention urges Paul's election with an increased majority Free article

Republicans confront criminal gangs in show of solidarity with McCabe family

2 March 2015

Up to 1,500 tell gangsters 'get off the backs of the people' of south Armagh Free article

Gaza Toy Drive appeals for your help

2 March 2015

Support needed to cover costs of storage and shipping thousands of donations to Gaza Free article

Stand up to criminal gangs – Gerry Adams at Burns/Moley Commemoration in South Armagh

1 March 2015

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD today spoke at the annual commemoration for IRA Volunteers Brendan Burns and Brendan Moley, who were killed in a premature bomb explosion in 1988. Free article

RIP Patsy McGarvey – 'A true patriot'

27 February 2015

Republicans mourn loss of Castlederg Sinn Féin activist Patsy McGarvey Free article

Seachain an Díomá Má Theipeann ar Syriza

27 February 2015

CHUIR lucht frith-dhéine ar fud na hEorpa fáilte mhór roimh bua Syriza sa nGréig, ag súil go raibh tús curtha le troid ar ais ó aicmí is pobail a d’fulaing go géar ar mhaithe le lucht an airgid mhóir a shabhail ón anró. Free article

South Armagh criminals should get off the backs of the people and the Peace Process

27 February 2015

THE ATTEMPT TO KILL Frank McCabe Jnr outside Crossmaglen on Wednesday represents a new, violent escalation in the activities of crime gangs in the south Armagh and north Louth region. Free article

1916 commemoration should be rescued from revisionists

24 February 2015

WRITERS at the Irish Independent were were left experiencing an acute bout of cognitive dissonance at the announcement by Sinn Féin of their centenary commemorations programme for the 1916 Rising. Free article

23 February 1985 – Three Strabane IRA Volunteers cut down by hail of SAS bullets

23 February 2015

Three young IRA Volunteers in Strabane, County Tyrone, were mown down by a British Army/SAS unit as they crossed open fields in darkness to dump weapons intended for an ambush which had been postponed. No warnings were given as Volunteers Charles Breslin and brothers Michael and David Devine perished in a hail of over 100 bullets. Free article

Edward Daly, Limerick-born executed 1916 leader

22 February 2015

EDWARD 'NED' DALY, one of the executed 1916 leaders and commandant of the Fourth Battalion, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Rising took place, was born on Frederick Street, Limerick, in February 1891. Free article

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