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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

Catch-22 – Leo Varadkar’s ministers try to force ‘voluntary’ ID card on public by denying services

25 August 2017

Minister Regina Doherty ridiculously claims that Public Service Card is ‘mandatory’ but not compulsory Free article

Unionist leaders upset over ‘Blood & Thunder’ flute band name-calling

24 August 2017

‘These politicians would be better off trying to resolve this contentious parade instead of supporting bands who are cheerleaders for loyalist death squads’ Free article

‘Brexit is Bad for Your Health,’ all-island health forum hears in Derry

24 August 2017

‘Shared services on all-island basis, shared staff and common standards make clinical as well as financial sense and all this could be lost through the imposition of an EU frontier as a result of Brexit’ – Martina Anderson MEP Free article

Michael Devine – Died 20 August 1981 after 60 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

20 August 2017

On the death of INLA Volunteer Michael Devine at 12 minutes to eight on Thursday 20 August 1981, his brother-in-law, Frankie McCauley, said: “One thinks, ‘Ten men, how many more have to die? We have ours now over us. Next week it will be big Laurence’s people waiting for the same thing. Then the Devlins after that and another boy will go on hunger strike and another. They’ll never break them.’” Free article

Barcelona – Gerry Adams TD and Michelle O’Neill MLA extend sympathy and solidarity to victims

18 August 2017

Sinn Féin leaders issue statements after jihadist slaughter in Catalonia Free article

Special Status for North Within EU most viable alternative to Britain’s ‘half-baked’ Brexit plans

16 August 2017

Without Special Status we would have one part of the island in the EU and the other part out, and one part of the island in the Customs Union and the other part out Free article

Leo Varadkar’s Government cannot be a passive observer on Brexit and North, says senator

16 August 2017

‘Far too critical period,’ Belfast member of Seanad says Free article

New film on Irish-America and 1916 Rising to premiere in Dún Laoghaire

15 August 2017

‘Her Exiled Children’ showing at Roger Casement Summer School in the Dún Laoghaire Lexicon Theatre on Thursday 24 August at 7pm Free article

Glasgow remembers the Hunger Strikers

11 August 2017

Cairde na hÉireann in Scotland and Liverpool weekend of events addressed by former H-Blocks OC Séanna Walsh, now a Belfast City councillor Free article

Martin McGuinness unique personal photo exhibition unveiled at Derry’s Gasyard Féile 2017

10 August 2017

The exhibition contains photographs from all stages of his life, including family photos from the McGuinness family’s personal archiv Free article

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