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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

Jubilee joy from Mark Steel

6 June 2012

'My special Jubilee commemorative column didn’t make it into the newspaper but it is here' Free article

New An Phoblacht out now

2 June 2012

Titanic Years in Belfast – Ballyhea’s Way or Frankfurt’s Way – Donegal TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn interviewed – and much more . . . Free article

Irish Daily Star and Daily Mirror lash 'Yes' campaign for scare tactics

30 May 2012

Papers warn against enshrining austerity in Constitution Free article

'Free the Cuban 5' campaign calls for more action

30 May 2012

A call has gone out for more people in Ireland to become active in the ‘Free the Cuban 5’ campaign for five counter-terrorist agents jailed in the United States Free article

Pictures from Le Chéile 2012

30 May 2012

A thousand march in Cork against privatising Home Help service

29 May 2012

SIPTU organises resistance to HSE cuts for services for most vulnerable Free article

Blues music legend Don Baker calls for 'NO' vote at Rotunda rally

29 May 2012

250 people hear human rights activist Siobhán O’Donoghue (‘For a Better Europe, Vote No’), Mandate trade union leader John Douglas, Mary Lou McDonald and Gerry Adams Free article

Sinn Féin now twice as popular as Labour Party – Irish Times poll

28 May 2012

This poll puts Sinn Féin support at more than twice its 2011 general election vote when it made the breakthrough in having 14 TDs elected. Free article