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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

Sinn Féin support striking public sector workers

11 July 2014

Workers are entitled to a living wage Free article

Video – Dublin protest against brutal Israeli assault on Gaza

10 July 2014

Protests outside Irish Parliament as Gaza death toll rises to 80 Free article

Hundreds attend Gaza solidarity rally in Derry

10 July 2014

First in series of events highlighting Israeli state terror against people of Palestine Free article

Loughgall SAS ambush inquest blocked by minister ‘in interests of national security’

9 July 2014

Move part of ‘relentless campaign to suppress truth about activities of state agents’, says Committee on the Administration of Justice Free article

H-Blocks Hunger Striker Joe McDonnell remembered

9 July 2014

Joe’s daughter Bernadette and grandchildren Naoise, Joseph and Caolan joined a white-line picket at Sinn Féin’s Connolly House in Belfast Free article

Unionism’s ‘graduated response’ more about opposition to power-sharing than parade ruling

9 July 2014

Contested parades are a vexed issue and must be resolved but unionism’s ‘graduated response’ to parade ruling is a sham, argues Sinn Féin National Chair Declan Kearney Free article

Belfast’s Kincora scandal and MI5 must be part of Westminster paedophile inquiry – Ken Livingstone

8 July 2014

MI5 was monitoring sex abuse carried out at Belfast children’s home run by unionist paramilitary chief with links to unionist parties and Orange Order, says former Mayor of London and Labour MP Free article

Greyhound Recycling bosses’ Labour Court claims rubbished

8 July 2014

Repeated claims by Greyhound bosses that savage cut to wages and conditions is in line with a Labour Court recommendation are completely misleading and false, says SIPTU Divisional Organiser Owen Reidy Free article

Video – Hundreds rally in support of locked out Greyhound workers

8 July 2014

Staff at Greyhound waste collection company are locked out after refusing to accept a management attempt to cut their pay by 35% Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Volume 1 - Number 22

4 July 2014

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 22 newspaper, first published 4th July 1914. Free article

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