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UB40 s drummer Jimmy Brown has claimed MI5 bugged their phones and traced their every move.
The 63-year-old sticksman - who is known to be outspoken about social and political matters - has recalled a period in the 1980s when the security service were keeping a close eye on them and even hacked into their phones in case they were plotting a revolution.
Jimmy told The Guardian newspaper: “MI5 were tapping our phones, watching our houses. All sorts.
“We thought, ‘Haven’t they got criminals to catch?’ We were just a bunch of potheads, smoking weed and playing music, talking about solving the world’s problems.
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Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day
Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day
On this day, Bobby Sands died while campaigning for political prisoner status for IRA prisoners at Long Kesh.
Frances Mulraney
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On this day, May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands died after mounting a historic 66-day hunger strike while imprisoned in Long Kesh, Northern Ireland.
Bobby Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area. His family had succeeded in living reasonably peacefully in the area by keeping their own religion under wraps. When word spread of the Catholic Sands family, however, intimidation and threats began, forcing the family to move when Sands was just ten years old.
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MAY 5th 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’ campaign for the restoration of political status.
Bobby was the first of ten hunger strikers to give their lives in 1981 in the centuries-old struggle against Britain’s attempted criminalisation of the struggle for freedom in its first and nearest colony.
He was elected on April 9th 1981 in the by-election to fill the seat held by the late Independent MP, Frank Maguire, who had died just five days after Bobby had begun his hunger strike on March 1st.
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