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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

Video: Basque Senator Urko Aiartza in Dublin talks about Spanish police raids and peace process

2 October 2013

Basque delegation arrives in Dublin and Belfast as Spanish state ratchets up repression of human rights NGOs Free article

Sinn Féin MEP calls for release of 18 Basque prisoners’ supporters

1 October 2013

Spanish police raid on office an attack on freedom of association and freedom of expression, says Martina Anderson MEP Free article

Still the Bad Old Days in the Old Town Hall

30 September 2013

‘I spent Friday morning in Old Town Hall Court House in Belfast where the Coroner again held yet another preliminary inquest hearing into the RUC killings of five republican men and a nationalist teenager in 1982 in what has become known as the shoot-to-kill cases’ Free article

Republicans will continue to honour ‘brothers or sisters, our sons and daughters, our friends and comrades’

30 September 2013

Republicans will pay tribute to their patriot dead because ‘these were our brothers or sisters, our sons and daughters, our friends and comrades’, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney tells Tyrone commemoration Free article

Belfast Mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir – ‘A sight for sore eyes’

30 September 2013

Courtesy of the Shankill Women's Centre and An Chultúrlann, residents from both sides of the divide joined to host a colourful street party celebrating the Belfast of yesterday Free article

Lynn Ní Bhaoighealláin to contest Dublin EU seat for Sinn Féin

29 September 2013

Sinn Féin is the only party to contest the European elections on an all-Ireland basis and Lynn joins three other Sinn Féin candidates already selected by members Free article

British military join Rangers fans in loyalist displays at Ibrox ‘Armed Forces Day’

29 September 2013

Ministry of Defence and Scottish authorities challenged after British crown forces personnel join in chanting while senior officers look on from directors’ box Free article

Guinness's – 'Steadfast in their loyalty to the British crown'

25 September 2013

Rarely is it mentioned that founder Arthur Guinness was a unionist, completely opposed to independence for Ireland Free article

'What's Left': Political flotsam and jetsam

20 September 2013

Willie Frazer on the Hook, 'Billy Boys' v 'The Fields of Athenry', Orange royals not going Dutch in the Netherlands, and High Noon in Jordan's Parliament Free article

Video: Hundreds protest against austerity as Dáil returns

19 September 2013

Senator David Cullinane calls for the public to unite against pro-austerity parties Free article

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