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
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Sinn Féin leader pressures Taoiseach on Anglo bank scandal and tapes Free article
Third petrol-bomb attack in a week on Short Strand
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Video – ‘Tour of the North’ PSNI actions involving Gerry Kelly and Carál Ní Chuilín
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Gerry Kelly MLA carried on PSNI armoured Land Rover as he questions arrest of nationalist (16) – Carál Ní Chuilín MLA injured and taken to hospital Free article
Ó Caoláin in Dáil on abortion legislation ‘brilliant and very compassionate’
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Gerry Adams appeals for information on victims secretly buried by the IRA
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