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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 – 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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