In the 2011 general election , SWP member and Irish Anti-War Movement chair Richard Boyd Barrett was elected to the Dáil Éireann on behalf of People Before Profit as part of the United Left Alliance . One of its best known members is Eamonn McCann , a journalist from Derry , who was involved in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s . He was present at both the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969 and Bloody Sunday in January 1972 , and has campaigned for the families of the fourteen shot dead by the British Paratroop regiment . McCann writes articles for media such as the '' Belfast Telegraph '' and '' Hot Press '' , and attracted 9,127 votes ( 1.6 % ) for the Socialist Environmental Alliance in the Northern Ireland constituency in the 2004 European Parliament election
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Bloody Sunday (1972)
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