A BUST of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was unveiled by Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in west Belfast yesterday.
The bust, commissioned by the Bobby Sands Trust, was put on display at the Felons Club on the Falls Road.
Sands, an MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone at the time of his death, was the first of 10 republican men to die in the 1981 Hunger Strike.
The unveiling of the bust comes ahead of a controversial Hunger Strike commemoration in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh, tomorrow.
Unionists have called for the march, organised by Sinn Féin,
to be called off. However, the party said the parade, which is expected to attract 10,000 people. will be "respectful". On Thursday the Parades Commission banned IRA flags, symbols and paramilitary clothes from the parade.
* COMMEMORATION: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at the unveiling of a bust of Bobby Sands at the Felons Club on Belfast's Andersonstown Road yesterday. The piece was commissioned by the Bobby Sands Trust and sculpted by Paraic Cassey, right PICTURE: Mal McCann