Monthly Archives: June 2020

‘I hadn’t cried since my grandmother died in 1963, but I cried the night Bobby Sands died’

A FORMER IRA man who spent years in the next cell to hunger striker Bobby Sands has opened up for the first time about life in the H-Blocks during Northern Ireland’s most troubled times. Jake Mac Siacais (62) revealed how years of being surrounded by death and tragedy on the Maze prison wings eventually leftContinue reading “‘I hadn’t cried since my grandmother died in 1963, but I cried the night Bobby Sands died’”