Unrest spreads
Violence provoked oy the death of an eighth Irish guerrilla hunger striker in a Belfast jail spilled over into the Irish Republic yesterday. Stone-throwing demonstrators besieged a police station and started fires across the border, in Monaghan, centre of the Irish constituency represented in the Dublin Parliament by the hunger striker Kieran Doherty. Doherty, elected as a member of the Irish Parliament last June, died in the Maze Prison after refusing food for 73 days.—Belfast.
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Press, 6 August 1981, Page 9
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