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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

Sinn Féin MPs and MEPs join Oireachtas colleagues at special Dáil session with European Parliament’s Brexit Co-ordinator

21 September 2017

The historic move was the first time that Sinn Féin MPs from the North have sat in the chamber with their Oireachtas colleagues Free article

Acting Garda Commissioner reneges on his promise to PAC on station closure criteria

21 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee to ask Garda chief to appear next week to explain U-turn Free article

Ibrahim Halawa acquitted in Egypt – safe return ‘imperative’

18 September 2017

Irish citizen expected to be freed within days after Cairo court clears him and his three sisters on bail in Ireland Free article

Self-serving cynicism of Fianna Fáil leadership never far from the surface – Gerry Adams

17 September 2017

‘What alternative has Mícheál Martin really offered? He has not changed anything for those most affected by the failures of the minority Fine Gael Government’ Free article

Red Hand Commando should disband, not seek legalisation, says Gerry Kelly MLA

12 September 2017

UVF affiliate formally applies to British Government to have proscription lifted Free article

Government must seize opportunity to reform An Garda Síochána – Mary Lou McDonald TD

11 September 2017

Culture of unaccountability in the senior ranks of An Garda Síochána has developed over decades under successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael-led governments Free article

Tory/DUP deal is damaging the political process

8 September 2017

Sinn Féin National Chairperson and South Antrim MLA Declan Kearney writes that the deal between the DUP and Tories is damaging the political process Free article

Stormont – Sinn Féin is committed to restoring the institutions

8 September 2017

Arlene Foster’s words are welcome but more than soft words are needed Free article

IRA Volunteer Tom Williams remembered in Belfast

5 September 2017

Belfast IRA Volunteer Tom Williams was executed in Belfast Prison on 2 September 1942 Free article

Tyrone Volunteers Commemoration in Strabane will start in Lifford, Sunday 24 September

4 September 2017

Beginning in Lifford is highly symbolic of the close historical bonds between Donegal and this part of Tyrone over many generations in the struggle for Irish freedom Free article

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