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Homelessness Protest in Dublin City Centre

September 10, 2017 Peter Apollo House, Dáil Éireann, Dáil Register, home sweet home, homelessness, homelessness and housing crisis, homelessness crisis, homelessness dublin, housing crisis, jonathan corrie, jonathon corrie, leinster house, saoradh, Shane 'Jack' watson, TD, TD Landlords

A protest to highlight Dublin’s homelessness and housing crisis was held in Dublin city centre on Saturday 9 September. The

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35 years since Bobby Sands Election – The 1981 Hunger Strike, Reaction and its Legacy

April 13, 2016 Peter 10 men dead, 1981, 5 May 1981, 66 Days, 7 May 1981, 9 April 1981, Abstention, BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands street, By-Election, Dáil Éireann, Danny Morrison, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, five demands, Frank Maguire, Ghent, Greece, H-Block, Harry West, Hunger, Hunger Strikes, independent republican, INLA, IRA, Long Kesh, loyalists, Michael Fassbender, Michael Thatcher, Norway protest, Owen Carron, Paris, Political Status, Queen Elizabeth 2, Sands in coma, Sinn Féin, Steve Mc Queen, Tehran, the armalite and the ballot box, The Maze, Tommy Mc Kearney, Ulster Unionist

On 9 April 1981, with 30,492 votes, Bobby Sands won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election following the death of Independent Republican MP, Frank