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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

MEPs denounce Morocco’s human rights violations in Western Sahara

23 October 2013

GUE/NGL MEPs have condemned abuses by Morocco and reiterated their solidarity with the Sahrawi people’s peaceful struggle for self-determination Free article

Pensioners – Thousands rally against 'despicable' Budget cuts by Fine Gael/Labour

22 October 2013

'Grey Revolution' as thousands of older people protest outside the Dáil against Government cuts to elderly people Free article

Trade union leaders from US in Ireland to mark 1913 Lockout and austerity fightback

22 October 2013

Dublin Mansion House rally on Wednesday runs from 7pm to 9pm under the slogan of ‘In Common Cause Against Austerity, 1913-2013’ features John Douglas of ICTU, Terry O'Sullivan of LiUNA (North America), Patricia McKeown of UNISON, and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD Free article

Thomas Begley Commemoration: BBC reinforces victims hierarchy

22 October 2013

Mainstream media reflects Establishment bias in dealing with the conflict Free article

European Court ruling on Basque political prisoners welcomed by Sinn Féin

21 October 2013

European Court of Human Rights ruling has ramifications for up to 76 prisoners, ‘all of whom should now be released without further delay’ Free article

Conor McCabe pulls out of Labour History Society conference over Joan Burton invite

18 October 2013

Surprise and anger over minister’s prominent role after the Labour Party and Fine Gael Government’s austerity doctrine and Budget 2014 Free article

'Martin Corey is being denied natural justice' – Sinn Féin meets British Secretary of State

17 October 2013

Last year, a Belfast judge ordered Martin Corey’s release on unconditional bail because he was being held on the basis of secret evidence – he's still in prison Free article

Postcard campaign to reverse telephone cut-off for older people in Budget 2014

17 October 2013

‘Press the Alarm for the Elderly’ – 25,000 postcards (available from Sinn Féin) to be distributed across rural Ireland calling on people to raise the telephone cut-off in the local media and with elected representatives Free article

'Political transformation in the North of Ireland'

16 October 2013

Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney’s speech on Wednesday at St Andrew’s University in Scotland, ‘Political Transformation in the North of Ireland’. Also speaking at the event was PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Judith Gillespie and senior NIO representative Mark Larmour. Free article

Social welfare cuts for young people by Labour Party slammed . . . by Labour Youth

16 October 2013

Eamon Gilmore squirms as even his own party’s youth wing denounces Budget 2014 cuts as ‘regressive and counter-productive in terms of aiding the recovery of the Irish economy’ and ‘fundamentally unjust’ Free article

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