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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

Video – Public concern over potential impact of EU/US trade deal on Ireland

1 December 2014

Concerns raised that TTIP deal could have serious negative consequences for employment, workers' rights, agriculture and the environment Free article

Ulster Unionist icon quoted by Gerry Adams at North Belfast community engagement meeting

28 November 2014

‘In this island we cannot live always separated from one another. We are too small to be apart or for the Border to be there for all time. The change will not come in my time but it will come’ – James Craig, Stormont Prime Minister, 1921-1940 Free article

Video – Women lead protest against water charges during Taoiseach's visit

28 November 2014

Protesters greet Taoiseach during visit to Dublin City Hall Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 43

28 November 2014

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 43 newspaper, first published 28th November 1914 Free article

Joan Burton’s Dáil stonewalling leaves ‘grave questions’ about state’s role in sex abuse cases

27 November 2014

Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald TD and Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh regret the attitude of the Labour Party leader Free article

What should the next Westminster government do differently?

27 November 2014

This British Government is preventing outstanding matters of the Good Friday Agreement from being taken forward and accommodating unionist demands which fall outside the Good Friday Agreement framework, writes Paul Maskey MP from Westminster Free article

‘Hooded Men’ – Gerry Adams's letter to Taoiseach on deadline for Europe reopening internment torture cases

27 November 2014

New evidence shows British Government lied to Irish Government and European Court of Human Rights Free article

Video – FG/Labour Government's new housing strategy 'an exercise in spin'

26 November 2014

Sinn Féin Housing Spokesperson Dessie Ellis says plan will not provide sufficient housing to deal with the crisis Free article

British Conservative and DUP political and electoral interdependence now define Stormont talks outcome

26 November 2014

The litmus test for Northern nationalism will be the Irish Government’s commitment to ensure that the British Government delivers on agreements Free article

‘Hooded Men’ internment torture evidence – 4 December deadline for Irish Government action

26 November 2014

‘The Hooded Men’ was the name given to 14 men interned without trial from August 1971 who were tortured by British Army interrogators. Free article

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