Prison doctor David Ross was powerless in the role of bedside bystander as he tended to 10 hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison hunger strike. Forty years before doctors were on the frontline of a killer pandemic, Dr Ross was on a very different frontline. Dr Ross has been called “the 11th victim of the hunger strike”. Bobby Sands, the leader of the second IRA hunger strike, had a very different view of Dr Ross to Hughes. He did everything he couldMcKeown doesn’t agree that Dr Ross was the “11th victim of the hunger strike”.

Source: The Irish Times June 12, 2021 05:00 UTC