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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

Derry to host Sinn Féin National Youth Congress

12 March 2018

Ógra Shinn Féin is set to hold its 2017 National Youth Congress/Comhdháil Náisiúnta in Derry City on Saturday, 24th March 2018. Free article

Tánaiste urged to call for 'promised review into domestic homicides'

8 March 2018

Sinn Féin’s Imelda Munster TD has called for the review into domestic homicides to be completed, whilst speaking in the Dáil this afternoon. Free article

'Time to trust women' says Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald following Supreme Court ruling no rights of the unborn

7 March 2018

Sinn Féin President, Mary Lou McDonald TD, has said that there is no basis for any further delay of the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the constitution, following today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on the rights of the unborn. Free article

Pressure mounts on Taoiseach to bin spin unit

6 March 2018

Pressure is increasing on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to disband his Department’s strategic communications unit after being challenged by Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald at leader’s questions today.

Recent revelations show that the Taoiseach sought to centralise government communications not long after his election as Fine Gael leader which was met with unilateral criticism from... Free article

Real reconciliation requires vigilance and commitment - from all of us

6 March 2018

Regularly our society is confronted with the painful legacy of our divided past. Too often distrust and suspicion has taken the place of reconciliation and cooperation. For the social and political progress, we all desire, we must all try to do more. Free article

30th anniversary of killing of IRA volunteers in Gibraltar

6 March 2018

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the killings of three unarmed IRA volunteers in Gibraltar by the British SAS. Free article

Sinn Féin leaders in Brussels to meet Barnier

5 March 2018

Sinn Féin leaders Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill met with the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels today to discuss securing special status for the north within the EU. Free article

From the caves of Afrin will spring a revolution reborn

5 March 2018

Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP calls for solidarity with Rojava revolutionaries as Turkey continues its assault on the autonomous Kurdish region. Free article

So just what does Britishness mean to unionists?

4 March 2018

In tis article, Conor Keenan explores cultural identities and what British identity means to unionists today. Free article

Ireland’s interests must be defended during Brexit negotiations

27 February 2018

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has called on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to confirm whether tomorrow’s draft legal text will see Ireland’s interests protected during the Brexit negotiations.

Tomorrow will see the publication of the text giving legal affect to the political agreement between the EU and the British government during the Brexit negotiations. The principles of the... Free article

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