H-Blocks

An investigation is underway by Stormont's Department for Infrastructure (DfI) after a traffic updates Twitter account retweeted an image of an IRA hunger striker memorial.

A FORMER IRA prisoner who died earlier this year believed the treatment he received while being held in the H-Blocks led to the illness that claimed his life.

TOMMY McKearney has described how starvation ravaged him physically as he neared death during the 1980 hunger strike.

Lying in bed in a cell in the prison hospital, clearly weak from the effects of the hunger strike, Tom McElwee told his mother, sister and me that he was not going back ‘there’ unless he had the five demands.

The Seven Million Dollar Man RTÉ Documentary on One Sam Millar’s life reads like one of his crime novels.

LAWYERS acting for H-Block escapee Kevin Barry Artt are to refer his case to the Police Ombudsman after his murder conviction was quashed.

THE funeral has taken place in Co Donegal of H-Block escapee Paddy McIntyre.

One of the best known 1981 hunger strikers ignored an order from the IRA not to take part in the fast, a new book has claimed.

A FORMER republican prisoner has called on Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams to apologise to the relatives of hunger strikers.

AN award-winning journalist credited with writing the definitive account of the 1981 Hunger Strike has died in South Africa.