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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

Sinn Féin secures Dáil debate this week on Home Help cuts

12 October 2012

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD says the motion on Tuesday and Wednesday night will give TDs with an opportunity to reject and reverse the savage cuts Free article

UTV: Loyalist band arrested over tunes

12 October 2012

Eleven members of the Young Conway Volunteers, the band accused of playing sectarian tunes outside a Catholic church in Belfast on the Twelfth, have been arrested Free article

Video: Priory Hall 1st Anniversary March – Saturday 2pm, Donaghmede Shopping Centre

12 October 2012

Show your solidarity with the residents of Priory Hall, now one year out their homes as the Fine Gael/Labour Government stand idly by Free article

Mayor of Belfast portrait unveiled

11 October 2012

A PORTRAIT of the former and youngest Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Féin Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile, was unveiled in Belfast City Hall on 5 October to mark Niall’s just-completed year in office. Free article

An Phoblacht welcomes unionist engagement as Carson tops Dublin bridge poll

10 October 2012

Lord Edward Carson has enjoyed an incredible surge over the past 72 hours in An Phoblacht’s latest opinion poll about who to name Dublin’s new Liffey bridge after Free article

NAMA spends equivalent of 28,000 home help hours on recruitment – Pearse Doherty

10 October 2012

More than €500,000 has been spent by the National Asset Management Agency on the recruitment of staff since 2011 Free article

Amnesty wants investigation into 1970s waterboarding torture claims by BBC

9 October 2012

BBC Radio Ulster documentary 'Inside the Torture Chamber' says British Army and RUC used technique in 1970s Free article

A billion for AIB bondholders but no money for special shoes for children under HSE

9 October 2012

Parents of of children with intellectual and physical disabilities have been told by the Health Service Executive there is no funding left for specialist footwear that would enable their children to walk Free article

Mural to Irish International Brigader and IRA veteran Bob Doyle unveiled in Dublin

9 October 2012

International Brigades heroes honoured in Dublin Free article

Conor Murphy MP's blog from Venezuela: A witness to democracy

9 October 2012

Newry/Armagh Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy's blog from Venezuela on Monday 8 October, the day after the people of Venezuela re-elected Hugo Chávez for his third term as president 54% to 44% – Conor was one of the International Observers Free article

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