On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan.

UNIONIST representatives will join other guest speakers, including hurling legend Donal Óg Cusack and musician Peadar O Riada, at a special forum to discuss building a better Ireland.

Republican hunger strikers 20 years ago raised their movement’s struggle against the British presence to a "moral threshold", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.