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
Willie Frazer’s horse nonsense
26 January 2013
Serial headline chaser loses it in burger scandal stakes Free article
Video: Short Strand residents meet Oireachtas Good Friday committee
24 January 2013
TDs and senators hear first-hand accounts of toll of Union flags protests and attacks on east Belfast nationalist neighbourhood Free article
From ‘Dirty Harry’ to ‘Warrior Prince’ – Media Watch
23 January 2013
British media lap up Prince Harry's confession about killing in Afghanistan Free article
Game on? Unionist minister says DUP may back Border poll
22 January 2013
Sinn Féin welcomes Arlene Foster's challenge and opportunity to debate social, economic and political benefits of a united Ireland Free article
Death of Inez McCormack, civil rights and trade union activist
21 January 2013
Passing of first woman President of Irish Congress of Trade Unions Free article
Martin McGuinness: ‘I’m up for a sensible debate on British and Irish identities’
18 January 2013
‘I will absolutely guarantee the right of any citizen here to their British identity. All I ask in return is for the same respect and recognition to be given to my Irishness' Free article
TD from Traveller background calls Fianna Fáil councillor’s remarks racist
17 January 2013
Ireland's first TD from a Traveller background, Sinn Féin’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, says comments 'tantamount to hate speech' Free article
Video: Martin McGuinness shows solidarity with families in Short Strand
17 January 2013
Martin McGuinness, Alex Maskey and Niall Ó Donnghaile meet families under siege in Short Strand by Union flag rioters Free article
UVF members petrol-bombed policewoman in car, McGuinness tells BBC
16 January 2013
Several men smashed the back window of the police car and lobbed a petrol-bomb through the broken glass as the policewoman sat inside Free article
Martin McGuinness visits Short Strand
16 January 2013
Martin McGuinness visited the nationalist Short Strand neighbourhood in east Belfast on Wednesday 16 January. Free article
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