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# Long Kesh

Last year
2022
# Hugh Gerard Coney
Coroner ‘startled’ by British Attorney General’s failure to reply to files query
An inquest into the death of a man shot during a prison escape heard that there had been no response from the AG’s office in London for nine months.
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Jun 7th 2022, 7:06 AM
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# Bobby sands
'It doesn't diminish': The legacy of the 1981 hunger strikes, 40 years on
This Monday will mark 40 years since Bobby Sands went on hunger strike.
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Feb 27th 2021, 12:05 AM
# Long Kesh
UK Supreme Court will hear Gerry Adams' case to overturn prison escape convictions
During his second internment, Adams tried to escape twice – on Christmas Eve, December 1973 and again in July 1974.
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Nov 23rd 2018, 3:02 PM
# Long Kesh
Former H-Block prisoner visits Leinster House for the first time - 37 years after being elected a TD
Agnew was one of the “blanketmen”.
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Jun 27th 2018, 8:59 AM
# like a prison
'It's like Long Kesh without the watchtowers': Gerry Adams on Mosney direct provision centre
The Sinn Féín leader has urged the Government to improve conditions at the facility.
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Nov 16th 2016, 4:48 PM
# tensions
Martin McGuinness: The past few weeks have not been good for Northern Ireland
The Deputy First Minister also criticised the DUP – his coalition partner – for abandoning plans to develop the Maze prison into a conflict resolution centre.
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Aug 18th 2013, 7:30 AM
# State Papers
Gerry Adams questions Bobby Sands hunger strike claim
The Sinn Féin leader said claims in State papers that Sands offered to end his hunger strike would be “totally out of character”.
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Dec 30th 2011, 8:27 PM