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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

Dublin City Council urges rejection of shopping mall plan for Moore Street 1916 site

3 April 2013

Report recommends that Minister Jimmy Deenihan withholds consent from the Chartered Land plan which would encroach on the National Monument site and severely compromise it Free article

Labour and Ruairí Quinn's history lesson – Cartoonist Jarla's View

3 April 2013

The Labour Party leadership might want to study what 'Irish Times' columnist Fintan O'Toole says this week Free article

MI6 'organised killing' of anti-colonial Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba

2 April 2013

A British peer reveals that a senior MI6 operative confessed to him that the British intelligence agency organised the killing of Patrice Lumumba Free article

Video: Easter Rising 1916 commemoration in Belfast – Speaker: Mary Lou McDonald

2 April 2013

Belfast pays tribute to the men and women of the 1916 Easter Rising and all those who have given their lives for Irish freedom Free article

Inez McCormack Fund launched

28 March 2013

Late Belfast trade unionist and human rights activist’s name to continue to be prominent in rights-based approaches to addressing social and economic inequalities Free article

Belfast rallying call for Easter Sunday and 1916 Rising events

28 March 2013

Liam Shannon, chair of the National Graves Association, calls on republicans from across Belfast to turn out this Easter Sunday to remember our patriot dead Free article

ETA frustration at failure of Spanish Government to enter peace talks

28 March 2013

ETA says failure of Spanish and French governments to enter into talks until it disarms is a step backward Free article

Video: FÁS urges 60-year-old unemployed man to emigrate for €250 a week

27 March 2013

Unemployed bus driver trying to pay a mortgage has been encouraged by the Department of Social Protection to move to Malta for a low-pay job Free article

Fine Gael chairperson objects to wearing of Easter Lily

26 March 2013

A Fine Gael TD interrupted a debate on the Family Home Tax to object to the wearing of Easter Lilies in Leinster House Free article

Video: Sinn Féin unveil Bill to axe the Family Home Tax

26 March 2013

TDs Pearse Doherty, Mary Lou McDonald and Gerry Adams with Darren O'Rourke launch Sinn Féin Bill to repeal the Property Tax dreamt up by Fianna Fáil and implemented by Fine Gael and Labour Free article

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