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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

Coláiste Feirste to get new sports complex

10 April 2014

SPEAKING after a ceremony where she cut the first sod for the new state-of-the-art sports facility for the North’s only Irish-language secondary school, Sinn Féin’s Carál Ní Chuilín praised the work of the party’s elected representatives for the effort they put in to secure funding for the school’s Sportlann. Free article

Leaders urged to reject Lord Tebbit's call for 'Real IRA' to kill Martin McGuinness

9 April 2014

Former Tory Chairperson and close ally of Margaret Thatcher goes uncensured for incitement Free article

Video – Irish Government accepts Sinn Féin’s Wind Turbine Regulation Bill

9 April 2014

Sinn Féin Bill proposes a minimum distance of ten times the height of the turbine from any dwelling must be observed and that renewable energy produced in Ireland be for the benefit of Irish energy consumers Free article

Women activists drive republican agenda — Elections 2014

9 April 2014

A STRONG GROUP of republican women took to the streets of Twinbrook in west Belfast on Sunday 6 April to canvass for local Sinn Féin Councillor Charlene O’Hara in May’s local government elections. Free article

President’s state visit to Britain: ‘Governments must build on initiatives,’ says Martin McGuinness

7 April 2014

Irish republicans have always been prepared to take decisions and risks for peace and reconciliation, says Martin McGuinness ahead of Irish President’s state visit to Britain Free article

Labour MEP 'trying to hoodwink public' over Dublin Mayor vote

5 April 2014

Labour MEP claims to support elected Dublin Mayor while Labour councillors vote against, Sinn Féin's Lynn Boylan says Free article

Martin McGuinness to attend Irish Presidential state visit ceremonies in Britain

5 April 2014

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has accepted an invitation to attend events during the state visit of President Michael D. Higgins to Britain next week Free article

Welfare cuts: DUP leader didn't support Martin McGuinness’s lobby for Westminster rethink

4 April 2014

‘The only support I received was from my Scottish colleagues,’ says Martin McGuinness Free article

The Irish Volunteer, Volume 1 - Number 9

4 April 2014

The Irish Volunteer – Óglach na hÉireann (An t-Óglác) of Saturday 4 April 1914 has 16 pages packed with news of the growth of the Óglaigh na hÉireann (Irish Volunteers) the length and breadth of Ireland, from Belfast to Derry, Dublin, Tipperary, Cork and Limerick as well as London. Free article

UDA and UVF must disband

4 April 2014

Any potential for a class-based, unionist political alternative emerging is being discredited and destroyed by the gangsterism and sectarianism of both the UDA and UVF and other unionist extremists, says Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney Free article

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