AP front 1 - 2025 small

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: Pearse Doherty TD with Irish emigrants in Perth, Australia

18 September 2012

Pearse Doherty TD has been meeting Irish emigrants to Australia in a speaking tour of major cities under the banner ‘Generation Emigration’ Free article

Votes at 16 EU campaign backed by Martina Anderson MEP

18 September 2012

Martina Anderson meets National Youth Council Ireland and urges more engagement by politicians with young people Free article

Sinn Féin seeks legal advice on Clare Co Council coercion on Household Charge

18 September 2012

Clare Co Council makes education grants conditional on payment of Household Charge Free article

Tibet's 'Flame of Truth' relay met by Sinn Féin in Tallaght

16 September 2012

The relay, after traveling around hundreds of cities all over the world, will conclude on World Human Rights Day (December 10th) Free article

Price and Corey: Martin McGuinness to meet new British Secretary of State on Monday

15 September 2012

Marian Price's and Martin Corey's imprisonment to be raised with new British Secretary of State by Martin McGuinness on Monday Free article

Austerity did not lead to growth, says UN trade body

14 September 2012

Fiscal austerity and wage compression are further weakening growth in developed countries without achieving expected results, says annual report of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Free article

Protesters in 113 countries demand ‘Freedom for the Cuban Five’

12 September 2012

Mother of Cuban 5 prisoner to speak at Dublin's Liberty Hall next Wednesday Free article

1.5million march in Barcelona for Catalan independence from Spain

12 September 2012

Largest pro-independence demonstration ever a major challenge to the Spanish Government Free article

Brian Keenan Mountain Challenge in the Cooley Mountains – Saturday 15th September

12 September 2012

5th annual walk in memory of a republican legend Free article

Euro Parliament report shows member states' complicity with CIA torture

11 September 2012

MEPs back a report on human rights violations related to CIA activities and put forward concrete recommendations Free article

Page 333 of 489

Follow us on Facebook

An Phoblacht on Twitter

An Phoblacht Podcast

An Phoblacht podcast advert2

Uncomfortable Conversations 

uncomfortable Conversations book2

An initiative for dialogue 

for reconciliation 

— — — — — — —

Contributions from key figures in the churches, academia and wider civic society as well as senior republican figures

GUE-NGL Latest Edition ad

An Phoblacht
44 Parnell Sq.
Dublin 1
Ireland