Event: 1981 hunger strike

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opinion

Readers Blog: Explore life’s options in hard times

Few things are more heartbreaking than hearing of the suicide of a young person, as I did today.

comment-analysis

Inside the political maze of the H-Block hunger strike

news

Commemoration for hunger strikers

Eamon who? Labour needs profile and a strategy

gaa

GAA keen to embrace unionists, MLAs told

Sinn Féin is all take with little give

Sinn Féin’s growth down to hunger strikers’ ‘courage’

SINN FÉIN'S current electoral strength was in no small measure helped by 10 republican hunger strikers who died in the Maze Prison 25 years ago, party leader Gerry Adams acknowledged yesterday.

Sat, 06 May, 2006

IRA move prompts eBay trade in memorabilia

DOZENS of pieces of IRA memorabilia have appeared on internet auction site eBay since the terror group announced the end of its armed campaign last week.

Thu, 04 Aug, 2005

Sands’ grave vandalised in plot desecration

THE headstone of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was shattered by vandals who desecrated the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast, it emerged last night.

Tue, 13 Jan, 2004

Hunger strike march falls victim to foot-and-mouth

Sinn Fein has announced the postponement of the 20th anniversary march to mark the 1981 hunger strike because of the foot-and-mouth crisis.

Wed, 25 Apr, 2001