Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) security wing of Portlaoise Prison, Ireland, in early 1998. They were presented by Gerry Adams to the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis as 'our Nelson Mandelas', and were released together with Brendan Dowd and Liam Quinn in 1999 as part of the Belfast Agreement. Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) Martin Joseph O'Connell (born 1951), better known as Joe, is an Irish republican and a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is most noted for having been a member of the Balcombe Street gang. O'Connell was born in Kilkee, in rural County Clare, 'a stronghold of Gaelic-speaking inhabitants
Belfast South (Dáil constituency) Belfast Cromac and Belfast Ormeau. Even in a proportional representation election the Unionists won all four seats. The Nationalists and Sinn Féin combined could not accumulate a quota of more than one-fifth of the votes. "In 1921 parliamentary representatives of the constituency were elected using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation." Belfast South (Dáil constituency) Belfast South, was a former potential Dáil Éireann parliamentary constituency located in Northern Ireland despite being outside the Dáil's jurisdiction. It was a Dáil constituency from 1921 to 1922. The constituency was, in Irish republican theory, entitled to return four Teachtaí Dála (known