Sinn Féin’s growth down to hunger strikers’ ‘courage’
As republicans marked the 25th anniversary of the first hunger striker to die, Bobby Sands, Mr Adams described the 10 prisoners as role models for his movement.
He laid a wreath to Mr Sands, who won a House of Commons seat while on hunger strike, at a memorial in Hackballscross, Co Louth. But he also remembered 50 others who died during the hunger strikes, including three children hit by plastic bullets.
