Featured in Organized Rage, the view of Tommy McKearney on the threat to the health service in the UK and its knock on effect in Ireland. Tommy McKearney is active with the Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
