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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

General strike against austerity called in the Basque Country – 26 September

30 August 2012

Mass mobilisation underway against austerity programme of the conservative Popular Party government in Madrid Free article

Prison body scanner trial could see end of strip searches

30 August 2012

Pilot use of body scanners for searches in Magilligan Prison and Hydebank Centre to begin in September Free article

Greencore workers from England petition Dublin HQ on pay and conditions

30 August 2012

Petition to honour agreement on pay and conditions is backed by the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Workers’ Rights, Senator David Cullinane Free article

Troika’s cuts following FG/Labour austerity programme – Ó Snodaigh

29 August 2012

Fine Gael and Labour could tell Troika they want to follow different path from austerity Free article

Newry wreath-laying honours Óglach Patrick McKeown

29 August 2012

38th anniversary of IRA Volunteer marked Free article

Donal Óg Cusack's speech opening the Foyle Pride Festival 2012 in Derry City

28 August 2012

The three-times All-Ireland winning hurler with Cork and one of Ireland’s few openly gay sports stars was a keynote speaker at the first An Phoblacht/Sinn Féin Summer School in County Cork Free article

30 Irish-language learners come to Tí Chulainn

28 August 2012

Members of Belfast and South Armagh Sinn Féin on two-day intensive Irish course of language classes, singing, music and culture Free article

Rachel Corrie trial: Israeli court clears Israeli Army of killing solidarity activist

28 August 2012

23-year-old US peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death trying to block an Israeli Army bulldozer destroying a Palestinian family's home on the Gaza/Egypt border in 2003 Free article

Film evidence of loyalist thugs’ attacks at Royal Black Preceptory parade

27 August 2012

DUP politicians watched as unionist bands broke the law and defiantly breached a Parades Commission determination by playing loyalist tunes outside St Patrick’s Church in Belfast on Saturday during a parade by the Royal Black Preceptory Free article

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