The Bobby Sands Trust has extended sympathy to the family of the Welsh peer who as an MP moved the writ for the by-election that saw Owen Carron elected to Westminster. Dafydd Elis-Thomas ...

The first to die was the IRA leader in the Maze, Bobby Sands. In all, 10 prisoners died before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government made no public concessions to the ...