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: Sinn Féin launch Alternative Budget 2014
8 October 2013
Pearse Doherty speaks to An Phoblacht about Sinn Féin's Alternative Budget Free article
Don’t believe the FG/Labour Government's jobs hype
8 October 2013
Since Fine Gael and Labour took office, employment has risen by a paltry 4,300 per year – at this rate it would take 35 years to return to pre-recession levels of unemployment, says Eoin Ó Broin Free article
The Sinn Féin Budget Alternative – Giving families a break
8 October 2013
Pearse Doherty says ordinary people would be better off under Sinn Féin under a series of taxation and savings measures fully costed by the Government’s Budgetary Costing Unit Free article
Ibrox manager McCoist ‘threatens’ Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines
8 October 2013
Rangers boss’s sinking feeling at Trident missile base in Scotland Free article
London conference: 'Towards A New Ireland – A New Phase of the Peace Process'
8 October 2013
An important opportunity to discuss the next chapter in the Peace Process and the need to move forward to ensure equality and change continue Free article
'Radical Cities: Dublin and Belfast' – Mini-symposium on Labour History
5 October 2013
Friday 25th October at Queen's University Belfast Free article
Video: Sinn Féin Rural Development Minister, MEP and councillor visit Rathlin Island
4 October 2013
Sinn Féin Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development Michelle O'Neill MLA, Martina Anderson MEP and Councillor Cara McShane (Chair of Moyle District Council) visit Rathlin Island, off County Antrim Free article
The Rhythm Of Time, By Bobby Sands
3 October 2013
Today is All-Ireland Poetry Day, coincidentally the anniversary of the day that the 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strike ended. To mark the occasion we are reproducing perhaps the most famous poem to emerge from that titanic struggle between the Irish republican political prisoners and the might of the British prison regime, the British Government and all the powerful forces ranged against them. Free article
‘EU and Ireland cannot stand idly by’ during repression in Basque Country, say Irish parliamentarians
3 October 2013
Raids, arrests and trials by Spanish state are undermining the peace process in the Basque Country, Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe says as Basque delegation visits Ireland Free article
Ardoyne republican Margaret McClenaghan RIP
3 October 2013
Margaret, who died early on Wednesday 2 October, will be sorely missed by those who stood with her when the unity and strength of a committed community saw Ardoyne through some of the worst days of the conflict Free article
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