On this day forty years ago, the 1981 hunger strike came to an effective end after 217 days. The epic protest was the culmination of a five-year-long battle for the restoration of political status, which the British
Éirígí For a New Republic is calling on Galway City Council to issue a compulsory purchase order on the site of the old Corrib Great Southern Hotel and use it to build publicly-owned student housing. The site is