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 – Pearse Doherty confronts Finance Minister on water charges ‘scaremongering’
5 November 2014
Sinn Féin TD outlines alternatives to ‘a desperate government simply out of touch with the people’ Free article
TV3 host Vincent Browne calls TV3’s quizzing of Adams’s Maya Angelou tweet ‘ridiculous’
5 November 2014
‘Journalists now trawling through my Twitter account and seeking to dictate what poems I should or should not tweet brings us ever closer to the territory of book burnings’ – Gerry Adams Free article
DUP’s Gregory Campbell reported to Equality Commission for Assembly insult to Irish
4 November 2014
During Assembly questions to Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín on Monday, the East Derry DUP MLA made derogatory references to the Irish language by attempting to imitate Sinn Féin members’ use of Irish in the chamber. Free article
Máiría Cahill letters give new insight into case
4 November 2014
One of those acquitted in May at the Belfast Crown Court has taken the unusual step of releasing through her lawyers letters from Máiría Cahill thanking her for her support – letters that have (so far) been ignored by the mainstream media. Free article
Times are changing but the media isn't – 'Sinéad's Flying Column'
4 November 2014
Politics is shifting, people are pushing back but for much of Irish journalism everything remains pretty much the same. Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 39
31 October 2014
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 39 newspaper, first published 31st October 1914 Free article
Stormont Assembly Budget agreement
31 October 2014
Martin McGuinness says that, despite the economic challenges, Sinn Féin has ensured the protection of frontline services, particularly in health and education. Free article
Families of people killed in conflict get support from Sinn Féin
31 October 2014
ADDRESSING the families of dozens of people killed by British state forces and their loyalist allies, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness said the British Government that it must live up to its responsibilities on dealing with the past. Free article
Taoiseach’s ‘highly prejudicial’ comments torpedo meeting with four freed in Maíria Cahill case
30 October 2014
‘Comments attributed to you and media reporting are again highly prejudicial and inaccurate’ – solicitor to Taoiseach Enda Kenny Free article
Stormont talks – US and civic society’s interventions need to be urgently built upon
30 October 2014
The business, trade union, community, cultural, academic sectors and wider civic society now have a crucial role to play, Declan Kearney says. The intervention by the US administration should strengthen their resolve. Free article
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