Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. Free article

This year marks the 26th anniversary of the killing of Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin on May 21 st 1994. On that fateful night, a UVF gang planned to kill hundreds of friends and relatives of republican prisoners who were attending a fundraiser in the pub. The gang were armed and had a large bomb in a holdall.

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Right now we have the opportunity to seriously change the quality of life of hundreds of our fellow citizens. We need to seize this opportunity and make the housing first model a permanent reality, which would see rough sleepers getting long-term accommodation so other supports can be provided to tackle some of the longer term causes and effects of homelessness. Free article

The announcement this week by the north’s Joint Head of government and Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill that a medical school will open at Derry’s Magee university next year is a further indication that the recently restored Executive is not a return to the status quo and is delivering for all. Free article

Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. Free article

Thursday, 21 May 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2.30am. Later that evening Patsy O’Hara died. Free article

Adams' two convictions for attempting to escape from internment camp are also quashed Free article

On 12 May 1981 at 5.43 pm, just seven days after the death of Bobby Sands, Hunger Striker Francis Hughes died. The South Derry man had endured 59 days on Hunger Strike. His sisters Noreen, Maria and Vera and brother Roger were by his bedside when he passed away. Free article

Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns we have been involved in over the course of the previous week. Free article

100 years ago on 3 May 1920 Dublin City Council officially acknowledged the authority of the First Dáil Éireann, the government of the Irish Republic, and repudiated the British regime in Dublin Castle. This followed the victory of Sinn Féin in the local elections of January 1920. The 3 May motion was passed by 38 to 5 and read: Free article