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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

Laois monument recognises republicans’ dedication

4 September 2013

Monument honours republicans throughout Laois who worked or contributed in any way to the struggle for Irish freedom over the past 40 years Free article

Video: Staff locked out of jobs at Chief State Solicitor's Office

4 September 2013

Security staff in limbo as company refuses to honour transfer of undertakings guidelines Free article

Priory Hall: Minister Phil Hogan’s claim he cannot legally meet residents is ‘baloney’

3 September 2013

Environment Minister should meet Priory Hall residents NOW, says local councillor Free article

Irish Times gets it wrong – Sinn Féin keeping Wealth Tax in Budget plan

3 September 2013

Senior Sinn Féin insider insists: ‘We have not dropped the Wealth Tax’ Free article

Video: Sinn Féin launch 'Equality not Elitism - Abolish the Seanad' campaign

3 September 2013

Pearse Doherty calls on people to reject elitism, privilege and discrimination by voting 'Yes' to scrap the Seanad Free article

New banner unveiled to Derrybeg Martyrs

2 September 2013

Tributes to Brendan Watters, Colm Marks, Patrick and Michael Hughes and Eddie Grant – five IRA Volunteers from the Derrybeg area Free article

Fine Gael TD boasts on 1913 Lockout anniversary of slashing 25,000 jobs

2 September 2013

Labour Party’s partners in power threaten more unemployed as Eamon Gilmore's ministers line up at Lockout ceremony Free article

Unionist paramilitaries threaten bar owners in Larne

2 September 2013

Several pubs in seaport link with Scotland visited on Saturday with warnings not to serve Catholics Free article

Sunday Independent 'IRA fantasy’ slated by MP

2 September 2013

Jim Cusack tale raises serious questions about the standard of journalism at the Sunday Independent, says local MP Free article

Seamus Heaney – Gerry Adams remembers a national treasure

2 September 2013

Gerry Adams: “When I was writing ‘Hope and History’, which deals with the 1980s and 1990s and the birth and evolution of the Peace Process, I contacted Seamus and asked if he minded me quoting from his poem ‘The Cure at Troy’” Free article

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