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Pat Sheehan on Al Jazeera
This week Al Jazeera broadcasted a documentary on Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and the tactic of hunger striking. The film, which was made by Al Jazeera Arabic/Focus film is about the tactic of ‘open’ hunger strikes which have often been used in...
Journey to Derrylin
Jim Gibney, who proposed the idea of standing Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, was at last Sunday’s hunger strike march in Fermanagh and in this feature he recalls the year of 1981: The car journey on Sunday to Derrylin to commemorate the...
Marble Bust, Bobby Sands Unveiled
Last Friday, 1st August, in the Felons Club, West Belfast, a marble bust of Bobby Sands made by a young Irish sculptor, Paraic Casey, was unveiled in the foyer of the club by former prisoners, Sinead Moore and Jimmy Burns. Síle Darragh, Bobby Sands Trust, chaired the...
Gaeltacht Bursaries
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness and Deputy First Minister has made bursary awards as part of the Bobby Sands Gaeltacht Scholarship to pupils of St Colm’s High School in Twinbrook, where Bobby Sands lived. The bursary is a joint initiative taken by Colin Sinn Féin and...
Son of Hunger Striker Visits Belfast
Basil Farraji, whose father is on hunger strike in an Israeli Jail, is visiting Belfast this week with the Path to Peace Project and meeting with solidarity groups and political activists. Abdul Razzaq Farraj, 51 years old, the administrative and financial...
Nasrin Sotoudeh & Bobby Sands
Iranian human rights lawyer and Sakharov Prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh was held for three years in Evin prison and was on hunger strike on four occasions, the longest for forty nine days. In an interview with Lara Marlowe in the Irish Times she writes of the influence...
Death of John Sands
The Bobby Sands Trust regrets to learn of the death of John Sands (pictured front left, carrying his son's coffin), father of our comrade Bobby. Deepest condolences to his wife Rosaleen, daughters Marcella, Bernadette and son John; to Gerard Sands and family; and...
Israel To Force Feed Prisoners
Two hundred and eighty-five Palestinians prisoners are fasting in protest at their detention; 70 have already been transferred to Israeli hospitals because of deteriorating health. Many of them today marked their 49th day of fasting, and some of them have been...
Hunger Strike Begins Today
Palestinian prisoners are ready to mount a mass hunger strike, according to The Electronic Intifida, over the continuing Israeli policy of 'administrative detention', which is really internment without charge or trial. Speaking from Gaza Strip's Jabaliya...
No One Wants Thatcher!
In April 2013, shortly after the death of Margaret Thatcher, Tories in her constituency of Finchley invited residents to rename their street after her in the expectation that they would be queuing up in their droves (and their Drives!). Instead, on the first...
