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Senator Seamus Brennan on Bobby Sands’ death
John Tusa interviews Senator Seamus Brennan of Ireland's ruling Fainna Fáil party on the Irish government's reaction to the death of hunger striker Bobby Sands.
He asks him if Taoiseach Charles Haughey supports some form of political status for republican prisoners and whether the Haughey-Thatcher summit scheduled for June will be cancelled because of the crisis surrounding the hunger strike.
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