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

First published to mark the 1981 Hunger Strike 30th anniversary – In the lead-up to the anniversary of the death on Hunger Strike of Bobby Sands MP on 5th May 1981, Bobby’s close friend and leading Belfast Sinn Féin activist Séanna Walsh spoke about the man who has become a revolutionary icon around the world 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 involved in throughout the week. Free article

In the aftermath of the Westminster general election, and with a majority of nationalist MPs returned in the North for the first time ever, it’s clear that the entire Brexit debacle has dealt a potentially fatal blow to political unionism. 

As DUP MLA Edwin Poots commented reflecting on the historic and symbolic loss of DUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds’s seat to Sinn Féin’s John... Free article

Robbie Smyth interviews historian and writer Ilan Pappe on his latest book on the key historical aspects of the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Free article