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The mother of well-known hunger striker Bobby Sands was remembered as a principled and devout woman by her daughter.
Rosaleen Sands died last week aged 95 and her funeral was held in St Oliver Plunkett’s Church in Blackrock, Louth.
According to The Irish News her daughter, Bernadette Sands-McKevitt said at the funeral: “She was a working class girl from a working class area and my mother never forgot her roots.
“She was a principled person who had times of trouble.”
She added that none of her siblings were allowed to “leave the house without first saying our prayers blessing ourselves with holy water”.