Hunger striker Joe McDonnell’s election campaign in Sligo-Leitrim remembered



It’s 40 years since Joe McDonnell began his H Block hunger strike at the Maze Prison, after the death of Bobby Sands. He went on to stand as a candidate in the Sligo-Leitrim constituency in the General Election of 1981 before his own death – his daughter Bernadette, family members, prison colleagues and election campaigners have been remembering that time

 



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