Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh
19 May 2026
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls. Free article
Hello, Mary Lou . . . Teachta Dála
1 March 2011
MARY LOU McDONALD celebrates being elected TD with former Dublin Central candidate Nicky Kehoe at the RDS on Saturday with Larry O'Toole (left) and Gerry Adams alongside.
Eamon Dunphy says ‘Vote Sinn Féin’ to send the Establishment a defiant message
24 February 2011
EAMON DUNPHY, the outspoken TV and radio pundit, has urged people to vote Sinn Féin “to send Brussels a defiant message” over the banks, the IMF and Irish sovereignty.
Describing Election 2011 as “the most important election of our lifetime”, he wrote in The Dunphy Files column in the Irish Daily Star last Saturday:
This election is about deciding whether we continue to support... Free article
'Youth vote will shake up Irish politics' (SpunOut.ie online poll)
23 February 2011
From: SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation
http://www.spunout.ie | [email protected]
- Sinn Féin 33%
- Labour 17%
- Fine Gael 16%
- Fianna Fáil 06%
THE SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation is today encouraged that despite widespread disillusionment with electoral politics only 6% of young people polled in their temperature-testing ‘Big Online Election Poll’... Free article
40,000 march for political legalisation in Basque Country
23 February 2011
40,000 people took part in a large silent demonstration in the streets of Bilbao last Saturday with the slogan “Towards peace – legalisation”. That silence became a clamour to demand the legalisation of all political options in the Basque Country.
The promoters of the demonstration were all well-known faces in Basque society: people from politics, business, sport, trade union... Free article
‘Well-paid’ Equality Minister should give up his teacher’s pension
21 February 2011
FIANNA FÁIL Equality Minister Pat Carey should give up his teacher’s pension and save taxpayers money “after pocketing a €120,000 tax-free lump sum while families are struggling to make ends meet”, Sinn Féin Dublin North-West candidate Dessie Ellis has said.
Dublin City Councillor Dessie Ellis said:
It’s a bit rich for the well-paid Equality Minister to be pocketing large... Free article
‘Brian Cowen and the Seven Deadly Sinners’ > Political satire at the New Theatre
21 February 2011
The New Theatre Presents
Brian Cowen
and the
7 Deadly Sinners
Written by Rua Ó Donnachu
Directed by Anthony Fox
Feb 21st to Mar 5th @ 8pm
Tickets €15/€12/€10
THIS fast-paced no-holds-barred new show takes a satirical look at the comings and goings of Brian, Bertie, Brian L, Mary, Charlie, Olli and the rest of our capable leadership as they indulge in some familiar sins in the... Free article
Enda Kenny challenged by Mayo rival Ruane on protecting Irish language
20 February 2011
ONE OF ENDA KENNY’s Mayo Sinn Féin election rivals, Councillor Thérèse Ruane, has called on Fine Gael to protect the Irish language.
Thérèse took part in a protest at Fine Gael HQ in Dublin at its plans to reduce the status of the Irish language for second-level students. She said:
In contrast to Fine Gael, Sinn Féin is committed to the protection and restoration of the Irish... Free article
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