On this day, March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands started his 66-day hunger strike, protesting the end to “political prisoner” status for IRA prisoners, which eventually took his life.
Roy Greenslade, a former Daily Mirror editor, a London Times senior editor and later The Guardian media editor, has revealed his secret support for the IRA during The Troubles. He also secretly wrote a column for the IRA newspaper, An Phoblacht, during the period.
"Nothing short of attempted murder". Conspiracies and protests abounded before curbing close contacts and a vaccine eventually eradicated the infectious disease.
Ciara Nolan and Jean Francois Bonnet's miraculous rescue of Neesha the Golden Retriever in the Wicklow Mountains is warming hearts all across the Internet.
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have presented the first study globally to assess lung function and respiratory symptoms in patients across the full range of initial COVID-19 severity