At 5.11 a.m., on July 8th, Joe McDonnell, who - believeably, for those who know his wife Goretti, his children Bernadette and Joseph and his family - "had too much to live for" died after sixty one days of agonising hunger strike, rather than be criminalised. The fourth IRA Volunteer to join the hunger-strike for political status, he was from the Lenadoon housing estate in West Belfast. A well-known and very popular man in the Greater Andersonstown area he grew up

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