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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

Civil War martyr Joe McKelvey tribute in Belfast

10 December 2012

Joe McKelvey, one of the ‘Four Martyrs’ executed by the Free State Government on 8 December 1922, was remembered in Belfast at the weekend, on the 90th anniversary of his death. Free article

Video: Carers protest at Dáil against Budget 2013 cuts by Fine Gael/Labour

8 December 2012

Families' anger at €325 cut in grant Free article

Flags: Appeal to unionist leaders to speak up for respect in east Belfast

7 December 2012

Call made after Union flags erected overnight outside Short Strand church and homes Free article

Irish in Gaza: Caitríona Ruane MLA writes: ‘No one can stop change’

7 December 2012

Caitríona writes specially for An Phoblacht about her brief experience in what has been dubbed 'the world’s largest open-air prison' Free article

Budget 2013: People aren’t just getting angry – they’re getting organised

6 December 2012

More people join Sinn Féin after crushing austerity Budget by Fine Gael and Labour Free article

Video – Budget 2013 protest at Dáil

6 December 2012

An Phoblacht TV interviews protesting Dublin Council of Trades Union and Sinn Féin leaders as Dáil debates the Fine Gael/Labour 2013 Austerity Budget Free article

Attacks on Alliance Party homes and offices – unionist leaders must call a halt

6 December 2012

Martin McGuinness says political unionism needs to call for an end to protests and for those involved to step back Free article

Budget 2013 – What Some of the Papers Say

6 December 2012

Some of the mainstream newspaper headlines after the Fine Gael/Labour Party Budget for 2013 Free article

Inside the City Hall siege

5 December 2012

An Phoblacht’s Peadar Whelan was inside Belfast’s City Hall this Monday when it came under siege from a unionist mob after Belfast City Council democratically voted to reduce the number of days the Union flag flies over City Hall Free article

December 2012 Edition photographs

5 December 2012

Photographs from the December 2012 edition of An Phoblacht and some we could not fit in Free article

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