Patsy O'Hara

[1][4] Due to his injuries, he was unable to attend the civil rights march on Bloody Sunday but watched it go by him in the Brandywell, and the events of the day had a lasting effect on him.

[1] In October 1974, O'Hara was interned in Long Kesh, and on his release in April 1975 he joined the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and INLA.

[3][7] Despite a plea from his mother two days before his death, O'Hara expressed his desire not to receive the medical intervention needed to save his life.

[7] His corpse was found to be mysteriously disfigured prior to its departure from prison and before the funeral, including signs of his face being beaten, a broken nose, and cigarette burns on his body.

[8] She was not elected, but she was one of the more successful dissident republican candidates opposed to the new policy of the Sinn Féin leadership of working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), and won 1,789 votes.

However, Malachy McCreesh and Seán Sand, relatives of other hunger strikers, refused to participate unless O'Hara was allowed to accompany them.