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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

UDA flags flying in Derry village ‘very concerning’

14 August 2012

UDA emblems, Union Jacks, Orange Order flags and Queen Elizabeth's jubilee bunting have been put up on a main route into Derry City Free article

Gay couple forced out of their home in unionist estate

14 August 2012

Weeks of intimidation, threats and attacks take their toll on newly-weds Free article

Political unionism must make new strategic choices – Declan Kearney

13 August 2012

Unionist political leaders' failure to move the reconciliation process forward is helping give political cover to groups violently opposed to the Peace Process, the Derry Gasyard Wall Féile hears Free article

Appeal for release of terminally-ill Basque hunger striker

13 August 2012

Iosu Uribetxeberria, diagnosed with cancer in 2005, has embarked on a hunger strike to highlight his case Free article

Witless Wells: DUP ministerial hopeful retweets anti-Irish Olympics 'joke' on Twitter

12 August 2012

Health Committee Deputy Chair celebrates Britain's Olympics wins with racist tweet about 'thieving Irish' Free article

'Absurd' Apprentice Boys' parade through Ardoyne

11 August 2012

Loyal order walks through nationalist area to board a bus to take them back along their route and on to Derry Free article

DUP and Sinn Féin clash over loyalist band's sectarian parade on Twelfth

11 August 2012

DUP figure echoes lame defence of anti-Catholic tune by band Free article

IRIS – The Republican Magazine, now available in Easons and local newsagents

11 August 2012

‘For 25 Years, I Drank Like A Fish.’ Dr Garrett O’Connor, addiction health professional and recipient of the Betty Ford Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, and Sinn Féin Senator David Cullinane (Oireachtas Health Committee) on our relationship with alcohol Free article

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