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Bobby Sands Mountain Walk (Free article)
8 May 2013
Scores of people walk the Divis and Black Mountains as part of the commemorations for the H-Blocks Hunger Strikers.
Gerry Adams to meet slain prison officer’s family (Free article)
8 May 2013
Family say they are ‘looking for answers and closure and in no way are we seeking any form of revenge’
Alex Ferguson says being a trade union activist kicked off his success (Free article)
8 May 2013
Manchester United mastermind says his Glasgow working-class background in a socialist family helped him to be a champion
Headline-grabbing Fine Gael TD’s PA makes international news (Free article)
9 May 2013
Anti-republican zealot caught on CCTV shovelling up bundles of a local free paper criticising his boss, Derek Keating TD
Bobby Sands remembered – Sunday 5 May (Free article)
9 May 2013
THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Bobby Sands the revolutionary was invoked later on Sunday evening when senior republican Seán Murray delivered the annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lrcture in the Andersonstown Social Club.
Bobby Sands remembered – Sunday 5 May (Free article)
9 May 2013
THE 32nd anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands was marked in Belfast on Sunday 5 May as dozens of republicans held while-line pickets in his honour. Among those who gathered in Andersonstown near Sinn Féin’s West Belfast office were former Hunger Striker Jackie McMullan and many other republican former prisoners, members of Kieran Doherty’s…
Francis Hughes – Died on 12 May 1981 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks (Free article)
12 May 2017
The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th Century and of the Irish Republican Army.
Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, 21 May 1981 (Free article)
21 May 2017
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the…
Video: Stopping the fluoridation of public water – new Dáil move (Free article)
9 May 2013
The 26-County state is one of only four EU states that continues the practice – water is not fluoridated in the North of Ireland, Scotland, most of England or Wales
Women affected by domestic violence need more refuge places to turn to, Seanad told (Free article)
9 May 2013
Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh reminds Seanad that the Council of Europe sets out a recommendation of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population ‘and the Government are way off that target’
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