No further action is being taken over a statue of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands erected without planning permission, Belfast City Council has said. The local authority launched an investigation last ...

People gathered at the Sands statue to mark 45 years since the republican’s death amid a row over it being erected without planning permission ...

Belfast's deputy lord mayor Paul Doherty has quit the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in a dispute over a council vote on a statue of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. It follows a special ...

Sinn Féin has said the statue of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is “going nowhere”, as it was erected “by the people and for the people of this community”. Party MLA Danny Baker was speaking at an ...

A statue of Bobby Sands erected without planning permission in west Belfast has sparked political controversy.

Claire Hanna described a ‘sham fight’ between the DUP and Sinn Fein, and a ‘pile-on’ on members of her party.

Failure to act decisively could lead to further erosion in party’s electoral base ...

A Sinn Fein commemoratrion at an illegal Bobby Sands statue yesterday is the latest in a long series of cases where the party places itself above the law - counter to its ‘equality agenda’, critics ...

James McClean invoked Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands after a beer was thrown at him during the Wrexham - Birmingham City soccer match at St. Andrew's Stadium in England last night, Monday, September ...