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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

Fianna Fáil fail the people yet again

2 April 2012

FIANNA FÁIL’S ard fheis last month confirmed the view of many commentators that the party has found no way out of the crisis brought on by the economic catastrophe inflicted by the previous government on the Irish people – a crisis revealed in Fianna Fáil’s general election drubbing. Free article

DCU Sinn Féin forces referendum on €10k for ‘Money Maze’

2 April 2012

SINN FÉIN students in Dublin City University are campaigning to overturn a Student Council decision to donate €10,000 from Student Union funds towards the building of a labyrinth that students have dubbed ‘The Money Maze’. Free article

Welcome to An Phoblacht's new website

30 March 2012

The new An Phoblacht website offers subscribers immediate and easy access to all of An Phoblacht's content online and will include added features such as access to our extensive Archives of An Phoblacht and IRIS - The Republican Magazine in PDF booklet format. Free article

An Phoblacht video news for Sinn Féin March 30, 2012

30 March 2012

An Phoblacht video news for Sinn Féin week ending March 30, 2012. In this edition GAME workers bring their protest to the Dáil; Sinn Féin publish Bill to repeal Household Tax; Mary Lou McDonald reacts to Anglo Promissory note 'deal'; O Caolain lashes Minister Reilly's 'balderdash'; Peadar Tóibín on upward only rents for businesses and finally people encouraged to wear an Easter lily to honour Ireland's patriotic dead. Free article

Calls for explanation of €30million spend on Garda firearms training

14 March 2012

The Government has been asked to explain why the Garda spend on weapons has increased ten-fold between 2010 and 2011. Sinn Féin spokesperson on Justice and Equality, Jonathan O'Brien TD, put the question to the Minister for Justice after it was revealed in a Parliamentary question that not only had the spend on firearms rocketed in the last year but that the Gardaí had also spent over €30 million on firearms training over a six year period. Free article

All Party Committee calls on Minister to halt plans for Single Working Age Payment

14 March 2012

On Tuesday (March 13) an All Party Oireachtas report published today said that if Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton goes ahead with her plan to introduce a Single Working Age Payment, the ratio of jobseekers to vacancies could more than double. Free article

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