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Hunger strike commemoration in Drogheda this Saturday

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County Louth Remembering Ireland's Hunger Strikers

A commemoration will take place Saturday 14th September, assembling Bolton Square, Drogheda at 2.30pm.

Speaker former blanket man, hunger striker and MLA Raymond McCartney, Volunteer Patrick Rankin Republican Band in attendance and chaired by Cllr Joanna Byrne.

I'll wear no convict's uniform
Nor meekly serve my time
That Britain might brand Ireland's fight
Eight hundred years of crime.

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