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 – Dublin pub bomb hero Martin 'Doco' Doherty remembered 20 years on
1 June 2014
Hundreds of people take part in a commemoration to remember IRA Volunteer Martin 'Doco' Doherty who died stopping a UVF gang from bombing the Widow Scallans pub on Pearse Street, Dublin Free article
After the elections – New questions and decisions for political unionism
29 May 2014
If political unionism, and especially the DUP, is prepared to move forward, progress can be made, says Sinn Féin National Chair Declan Kearney in the wake of the election results Free article
‘Crime Control’ security deployed as pickets on at Kerry Foods
22 May 2014
Union accuses management of ‘very heavy-handed tactics’ in stand-off at Wicklow plant Free article
Raymond and Patsy remembered
22 May 2014
The 33rd anniversary of the deaths on hunger strike of South Armagh IRA Volunteer Raymond McCreesh and Derry INLA Volunteer Patsy O'Hara was marked on the Andersonstown Road, West Belfast, on Wednesday 21 May. Free article
A new direction for Ireland and EU institutions is needed
20 May 2014
On Thursday and Friday, voters can influence the future debate required about Ireland’s relationship with the European Union Free article
On the canvass with Julia Carney
16 May 2014
Julia Carney swaps her stilettos for sensible shoes and hits the streets Free article
Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty: Courageous and quick-thinking – Commemoration Events
16 May 2014
IRA Volunteer Martin Doherty was shot dead as he saved scores of lives when he foiled a bomb attack by the unionist Ulster Volunteer Force on a function for republican prisoners at the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin’s Pearse Street on 21st May 1994. Free article
Labour Party 'telling lies' about water charges in North
15 May 2014
The Minister under whose watch water charges and water privatisation were blocked says Labour Party lying by claiming there are water charges north of the Border Free article
Prime Minister Cameron’s unionist bias a reminder of John Major’s Irish policy
15 May 2014
Tory predecessor undermined evolving Peace Process, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney reminds Downing Street Free article
Francis Hughes remembered
13 May 2014
REPUBLICAN activists gathered in West Belfast on Monday 12 May to mark the 33rd anniversary of H-Blocks martyr Francis Hughes. Free article
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