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
Family challenge Ombudsman’s findings in RUC whistleblower’s killing
27 June 2014
Believed that Catholic RUC sergeant was set up by members of RUC Special Branch to be killed by UVF before he could expose RUC officers’ criminality Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Volume 1 - Number 21
27 June 2014
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 20 newspaper, first published 20th June 1914. Free article
Sinn Féin MEPs back anti-austerity candidate for EU President
27 June 2014
Sinn Féin MEPs to support GUE/NGL nominee, Pablo Iglesias of the Spanish ‘PODEMOS’ (‘We Can’) party Free article
Republican Youth activists in successful German visit
27 June 2014
Irish republicans meet radical left-wing youth organisation Rebell, solidarity campaigners and trade unionists Free article
Banking inquiry can scrutinise previously unreleased Cabinet documents
25 June 2014
Previous attempts to secure the documents via Freedom of Information requests were denied. Free article
‘Mrs Brown’ backs campaign to save Moore Street 1916 site
24 June 2014
Brendan O’Carroll and wife Jenny Gibney say: ‘Letting Moore Street go would be like knocking down Kilmainham Jail’ Free article
Fianna Fáil turmoil as only MEP joins Tory eurosceptic group
24 June 2014
Poll-topper Brian Crowley joins European Conservatives in defiance of party leader Mícheál Martin Free article
South Armagh Annual Volunteers Day
23 June 2014
Hundreds honour memory of south Armagh’s fallen fighters Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Volume 1 - Number 20
20 June 2014
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 20 newspaper, first published 20th June 1914. Free article
Sinn Féin MEPs’ solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
20 June 2014
MEPs call on EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton and Council President Herman Van Rompuy to publicly condemn Israel's use of ‘administrative detention’ Free article
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