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		<title>Sinn Fein’s ‘negotiating skills’ seem to get rusty with time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinn Fein’s ‘negotiating skills’ seem to get rusty with time Irish News, letters page Carmel Hanna MLA SDLP, South Belfast 03/07/2009 Jim Gibney (June 18) is being self-serving when he writes about ‘Sinn Fein’s proven negotiating skills’ – ‘‘under the SDLP’s Sunningdale the RUC was left intact”. Provisional Sinn Fein did not negotiate the ending [...]
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		<title>Irish News: Former Blanketman Joe McNulty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinn Fein talked tactics while hunger strikers died Joe McNulty, Dungannon 18/06/09 The revelation that Brendan Duddy confirmed a document from the British conceding demands on clothes, remission, work and other areas in early July 1981 (before Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson died) came as a total shock to me as a blanket man (The [...]
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		<title>SF to meet hunger strike families over deal ‘myth’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SF to meet hunger strike families over deal ‘myth’ By Seamus McKinney Irish News 13/06/2009 The Sinn Fein leadership has organised a meeting with families of the 1981 hunger strikers to discuss recent controversy about the period. Families of the 10 men who died were notified this week about the meeting at Gulladuff in south [...]
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		<title>Irish News: Hunger Strike Deal Must Be Disclosed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunger Strike Deal Must Be Disclosed Seamus McKinney, Irish News TRUTH: The 10 republican hunger strikers – pictured on the first day of each of their individual protests at the Maze Prison – and the dates on which they died PICTURE: Alan Lewis/Photopress The first IRA hunger striker to speak about a possible deal which [...]
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		<title>Brendan Hughes: O&#8217;Rawe Told Me His Concerns (2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#8217;Rawe Told Me His Concerns Brendan Hughes • Irish News, 19 May 2006 IT is not my intention to take sides in the ongoing debate over the claims made in the book Blanketmen by its author Richard O’Rawe. I am not in a position to speak authoritatively on the matter. I was in the same [...]
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		<title>O&#8217;Rawe responds to Gibney (2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 13:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Blanketman Speaks Out Against ‘Vitriolic Attack’ Richard O&#8217;Rawe, Irish News • 15 May 2006 A fellow republican said to me last week that over the period of Bobby Sands’ anniversary, the republican movement had done everything except paint the Star of David on my windows and daub Juden Raus on my front door. I [...]
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		<title>Jim Gibney (May, 2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 13:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brendan &#8216;Bik&#8217; McFarlane: &#8220;It did not happen&#8221; (2005)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former comrades&#8217; war of words over hunger strike (Steven McCaffrey, Irish News) The man who led IRA prisoners inside the Maze jail during the 1981 hunger strike has dismissed a controversial new book on the period as fictitious. Brendan McFarlane speaks to Steven McCaffrey about a period that still stirs deeply held emotions among republicans. [...]
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		<title>McFarlane denies Hunger Strike deal was struck (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hunger strikers&#8217; lives not sacrificed — family (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunger strikers&#8217; lives not sacrificed — family (Barry McCaffrey, Irish News) The family of a dead hunger striker last night (Tuesday) hit out at claims that the IRA sacrificed the lives of republican prisoners in negotiations with the British government during the 1981 dispute. The family of Francis Hughes last night rejected the claims from [...]
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