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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

Irish and British governments should stand up to ‘negative anti-Agreement axis’

11 September 2014

Sinn Féin open to negotiations but will defend the power-sharing institutions and press the British and Irish governments to implement their commitments under the Good Friday Agreement, Gerry Adams tells all-Ireland strategy think-in Free article

Fine Gael/Labour didn’t get the message from voters, says Gerry Adams

11 September 2014

Sinn Féin leader addresses two-day strategy conference in County Louth Free article

Sinn Féin all-Ireland strategy meeting

10 September 2014

Key activists – including the party’s MPs, TDs, MLAs, MEPs, senators, councillors and advisers from the Assembly, Oireachtas, Westminster and the European Parliament – to meet in County Louth Free article

New sex abuse allegations against crown forces in 1970s require independent investigation

9 September 2014

Women claim they were abused by members of the British Army and the RUC while in care home Free article

Family to sue Ministry of Defence over UDR weapon used in UDA murder

9 September 2014

Ulster Defence Regiment and loyalist collusion in the spotlight again Free article

Stormont’s challenges can be overcome, insists Martin McGuinness

9 September 2014

Joint First Minister Martin McGuinness responds to First Minister Peter Robinson’s dramatic announcement in a daily newspaper that power-sharing arrangements in the North ‘are no longer fit for purpose’ Free article

‘Campaign Against Royal Secrecy’ launched in Britain

8 September 2014

British lobby aims to end cover-up of royal family’s behind-closed-doors influence on British Government and law makers Free article

Public 'duped' by Government on Local Property Tax spending

5 September 2014

Government accused of hoodwinking homeowners by redirecting funds for local councils to toxic banks Free article

Vandalism of soldiers' memorial in Belfast must end, says Sinn Féin councillor

5 September 2014

Memorial in Ligoneil to three British Army soldiers killed there in 1971 during the conflict attacked more than a dozen times Free article

World leaders should be denouncing Israeli occupation of Palestine, says Martina Anderson MEP

5 September 2014

‘Israel enters into the negotiations but then carries out deadly military attacks and land grabs ­– a direct contradiction with the peace it claims to want to work towards,' says Martina Anderson Free article

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