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The Limerick man was one of nine who survived 94 days of a world-famous hunger strike in 1920.

One estimate stated that it was 5 times the size of the €800 million Dublin Port Tunnel.

The 2011 budget was described as the most draconian budget in the history of the State, with €6 billion worth of cuts to the state budget.

In 1906 Arthur Griffith compared the communication gap between Ireland and the outside world to a "wall of paper".

The Cumann na mBan activist and publicist was one of many women to the fore of promoting the republican message. In a recent biography of...