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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

France’s deadly pacific siege – Movie 'Rebellion' available on Netflix

2 January 2014

'REBELLION' is based on the 1988 siege when independence activists stormed a police station in the French colony of New Caledonia in an episode that saw 20 people lose their lives Free article

No fudging after Haass – parties and governments should ‘grasp opportunity’, says Adams

2 January 2014

‘Sinn Féin have stretched ourselves in these negotiations and we are up for this challenge’ – Gerry Adams Free article

Armoured cars, State Papers and the Irish Times

29 December 2013

Danny Morrison replies to 'The Irish Times' on the 1983 State Papers, Garret FitzGerald and the SDLP Free article

Mandela remembered in Belfast

20 December 2013

THE extent to which Nelson Mandela’s experiences of resistance, imprisonment and nation building impacted on the lives of so many people was reflected in the civic ceremony held in St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast on Saturday 14 December. Free article

Video: Opposition TDs walkout in protest at Water Services Bill

19 December 2013

Government attempts to force through bill which will privatise water services and introduce water charges Free article

Madiba’s legacy of hope – Gerry Adams on being at the funeral of Nelson Mandela

19 December 2013

'On Saturday, as they prepared to fly him south to Qunu, Madiba’s ‘send-off ceremony’ from Pretoria was given over to his comrades in the ANC and to the veterans of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), or MK, the military arm of the ANC, which Madiba founded on 16 December 1961' Free article

Video: €619million cut will plunge health services into further crisis

18 December 2013

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin says cuts included in HSE Service Plan for 2014 will push public health services into deeper crisis Free article

Labour should pull the plug on water charges, says Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

18 December 2013

The Government is pretending that the Water Services Bill is about water conservation measures but it is not coming up with any water-saving plans other than taxing already-hard-pressed families Free article

Video – Gerry Adams in international guard of honour at Nelson Mandela funeral

14 December 2013

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD – along with Richard McAuley – was the only Irish political leader to be invited to join an international guard of honour at the funeral of Nelson Mandela on Saturday Free article

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