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On 25 October 1920, Terence MacSwiney died in London’s Brixton Prison after 74 days on hunger strike. MacSwiney was a republican poet and a playwright who was elected as MP for Mid-Cork in the 1918 general election, and one of the many TDs marked as ‘fé ghlas ag Gallaibh’ (i

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UK: Priti Patel's record on human rights prompts 'extreme concern' | The Guardian

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A defendant had his mouth taped shut on a judge's orders after repeatedly interrupting his sentencing hearing. The tape was only removed after the man's lawyer suggested he could simply be removed from the courtroom instead.

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Facebook has been ordered to pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for privacy violations following an investigation into its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The FTC alleges that Facebook failed to safeguard user data from third parties and used t

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