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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: Cyprus crisis – Pearse Doherty TD criticises EU and Irish leaders

26 March 2013

Pearse Doherty says the latest developments in the euro crisis now crippling the Cypriot economy will lead to years of austerity and mass unemployment on the Mediterranean island nation. Free article

1916 Easter Rising commemorated in Stormont

23 March 2013

THE LONG GALLERY in Stormont echoed to the sound of republicans honouring the sacrifices of the men and women of 1916 on Wednesday 20 March when Sinn Féin’s Assembly team held their annual Easter commemoration. Free article

Double-jobbing DUP minister slates Sinn Féin minister's one-off payment to lowest-paid

22 March 2013

DUP Finance Minister Sammy Wilson lashes out over Sinn Féin Education Minister John O'Dowd's extra payment to lowest-earning education workers Free article

Kurdish rebel leader Öcalan in historic ceasefire call in war with Turkey

21 March 2013

A call by the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for rebels to enter into a ceasefire with the Turkish state has been welcomed by Sinn Féin Free article

Video: 'Hands off public water' protest at Leinster House by trade unionists

21 March 2013

Members of SIPTU joined by Sinn Féin Senator David Cullinane to protest against the selling-off of Irish water to private companies Free article

Meath East Fianna Fáil candidate backed Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen ‘every step of the way’

21 March 2013

Fianna Fáil is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate in their attempt to reinvent themselves, says Sinn Féin’s Darren O’Rourke Free article

Hundreds remember dead of Gibraltar, Turf Lodge and Milltown

19 March 2013

ON Saturday 16 March 2013, the 25th anniversary of the attack on mourners in Milltown Cemetery, hundreds of republicans and family members took part in a commemoration ceremony to honour those republicans who lost their lives during March 1988. Free article

Easter Lily appeal in Belfast City Hall

19 March 2013

BELFAST National Graves Association and the Belfast Executive of Sinn Féin launched the annual Easter Lily appeal in Belfast City Hall on Thursday 14 March. Free article

Mural officially unveiled

19 March 2013

THE recently-refurbished mural remembering the dead of Gibraltar, Turf Lodge and Milltown Cemetery was officially unveiled on Thursday 14 March in the presence of family members of those who died in March 25 years ago. Free article

Video: Gibraltar and Milltown mural and commemoration

19 March 2013

Families, friends, comrades and many others mark the 25th anniversary of the tragic events at Gibraltar and its aftermath in Milltown in 1988 Free article

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