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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 – 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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