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Catholic panel meets hunger strikers to avert deaths
In Belfast a Catholic committee met IRA hunger strikers with British approval as efforts to prevent further deaths continued. Joe McDonnell and Kiernan Docherty, among eight and 22 year prisoners respectively, show severe deterioration while talks with prison officials and Britain reached no clear path to an end of the fast.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Joe McDonnell
Goretti
McDonnell
Maze
Joe Austin
Kiernan Docherty