21 September 2006 Edition

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Mountmellick remembers the Hunger Strikers

Stephen Lynch, Dick Fitzpatrick, Cllr. Brian Stanley, Bik McFarlane and John Nelson

To commemorate and celebrate the lives of the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strikers, the William Brock Cumann Sinn Féin, Mountmellick, County Laois held a commemorative day in the town on Sunday 17 September.

The Mountmellick event featured the national Hunger Strike photographic exhibition and the Icons of Resistance photographic slideshow presentation by John Nelson. Guest Speakers were Bik McFarlane, former O/C republican prisoners in the H-Blocks during the Hunger Strike and Councillor Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin's Laois/Offaly Candidate in the forthcoming 26 County general election.


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