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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

PSNI 'facilitated illegal and often violent' loyalist marches, court finds

28 April 2014

Police Service criticised as Short Strand resident wins legal case over failure of PSNI to stop illegal marches Free article

Belfast City Council adopts ‘living wage’ – more should follow, says Sinn Féin

28 April 2014

Sinn Féin is determined that people are paid a wage that reflects their work and allows people to move out of the poverty bracket – Councillor Jim McVeigh Free article

Mass hunger strike launched by interned Palestinians

25 April 2014

Protest result of Israeli prison authorities reneging on agreement after earlier hunger strike Free article

Mother and 3 kids living in car denied social housing

25 April 2014

Sinn Féin Tallaght Councillor Máire Devine highlights in national media plight of homeless children and mother Free article

‘A week that shook the British Empire’ gets 120,000 views

25 April 2014

Easter Sunday post top story in Ireland all day Free article

Video - Thousands line streets for Belfast Easter Rising commemoration

22 April 2014

Martina Anderson MEP says the sacrifice of Ireland's republican dead continues to inspire the struggle for Irish unity and equality Free article

Video - Republican women honoured at Derry Easter commemoration

21 April 2014

Mary Lou McDonald hits out at the British Government and political unionism over their failure to implement the Haass proposals Free article

Video - Hundreds take part in Dublin Easter Rising commemoration

20 April 2014

Gerry Adams calls for republicans to mobilise for Irish unity and to make the ideals of the Proclamation of 1916 a reality Free article

The Rising outside Dublin

20 April 2014

This feature first appeared in An Phoblacht/Republican News on March 28th 1991 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising Free article

The Irish Volunteer – Volume 1 - Number 11

18 April 2014

New online – Cumann na mBan and battallions of Volunteers, The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 11 newspaper, first published 18th April 1914. Free article

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