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Bobby Sands continues to inspire people around the world (Free article)
3 May 2020
First published to mark the 1981 Hunger Strike 30th anniversary – In the lead-up to the anniversary of the death on Hunger Strike of Bobby Sands MP on 5th May 1981, Bobby’s close friend and leading Belfast Sinn Féin activist Séanna Walsh spoke about the man who has become a revolutionary icon around the world
Centenary of Dublin City Council pledge to First Dáil Éireann (Free article)
8 May 2020
100 years ago on 3 May 1920 Dublin City Council officially acknowledged the authority of the First Dáil Éireann, the government of the Irish Republic, and repudiated the British regime in Dublin Castle. This followed the victory of Sinn Féin in the local elections of January 1920. The 3 May motion was passed by 38 to 5 and read:
The Sinn Féin Weekly Digest (Free article)
9 May 2020
Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns we have been involved in over the course of the previous week.
Legendary Volunteer dies on Hunger Strike (Free article)
10 May 2020
On 12 May 1981 at 5.43 pm, just seven days after the death of Bobby Sands, Hunger Striker Francis Hughes died. The South Derry man had endured 59 days on Hunger Strike. His sisters Noreen, Maria and Vera and brother Roger were by his bedside when he passed away.
Gerry Adams's 1970s internment was illegal, British Supreme Court rules (Free article)
13 May 2020
Adams' two convictions for attempting to escape from internment camp are also quashed
McCreesh and O’Hara die on the same day (Free article)
16 May 2020
Thursday, 21 May 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2.30am. Later that evening Patsy O’Hara died.
The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin (Free article)
16 May 2020
Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week.
Derry medical school decision shows things have changed (Free article)
19 May 2020
The announcement this week by the north’s Joint Head of government and Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill that a medical school will open at Derry’s Magee university next year is a further indication that the recently restored Executive is not a return to the status quo and is delivering for all.
Rough sleepers must not be put back on the street after COVID lockdown (Free article)
20 May 2020
Right now we have the opportunity to seriously change the quality of life of hundreds of our fellow citizens. We need to seize this opportunity and make the housing first model a permanent reality, which would see rough sleepers getting long-term accommodation so other supports can be provided to tackle some of the longer term causes and effects…
Volunteer Martin Doherty remembered (Free article)
21 May 2020
This year marks the 26th anniversary of the killing of Volunteer Martin ‘Doco’ Doherty at the Widow Scallans pub in Dublin on May 21 st 1994. On that fateful night, a UVF gang planned to kill hundreds of friends and relatives of republican prisoners who were attending a fundraiser in the pub. The gang were armed and had a large bomb in a holdall.…
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