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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

DUP/Tory power pact now has primacy over power sharing

29 November 2017

It’s time the DUP “checked in” to the reality that it will not be returning to government until a rights-based, power-sharing administration which is avowedly anti-sectarian is established Free article

The politics of transformation advance

28 November 2017

THE political momentum which has led to over half a million people voting for Sinn Féin in Ireland was clearly in evidence at the 2017 Ard Fheis. Free article

Under-fire Tánaiste finally resigns – Varadkar’s leadership as Taoiseach now in question, says Mary Lou McDonald

28 November 2017

Fine Gael leader has been indecisive, weak, arrogant over ‘basket case’ Department of Justice Free article

‘An Phoblacht’ to move to magazine format in New Year

27 November 2017

Just as Sinn Féin is in a process of renewal and regeneration, so is ‘An Phoblacht’. The print and newspaper environment is changing in a fast-developing world of social media. Free article

‘This is the time for change’ – Gerry Adams talks to ‘An Phoblacht’

27 November 2017

GERRY ADAMS talks to An Phoblacht Editor John Hedges after he tells the 2017 Ard Fheis it’s his last as President of Sinn Féin Free article

Mary Lou McDonald will lead Sinn Féin into any Dáil election, says Pearse Doherty

25 November 2017

Sinn Féin will fight election on housing and homelessness, the state of the health service and climate change among other key issues as well as ministerial accountability Free article

RIP Jean Bryce of Albany, USA – a committed Irish republican from east Belfast

24 November 2017

Jean and John founded the local chapter of Irish Northern Aid in Albany and ran the Starry Plough Bar Free article

Sadness at death of Mike McGinley – Gerry Adams TD

24 November 2017

Mike was passionate about achieving a united Ireland and gave freely of his time and energy, whether it was in support of the political prisoners, helping recent immigrants or working to advance the Peace Process Free article

Cuban Film Festival in Dublin, Friday to Sunday

23 November 2017

Admission to all screenings is free Free article

Amnesty International lashes Tory/DUP immunity blanket for British forces in North of Ireland conflict

22 November 2017

‘Such a move would in effect be the granting of a blanket amnesty for human rights abuses committed by former members of the security forces in Northern Ireland’ – Amnesty International Free article

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