Bernadette Sands McKevitt

Biography:

Bernadette Sands McKevitt is an Irish republican and a former leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement. She lived in the mainly loyalist Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey before her family were forced out of their home to live in the mainly republican West Belfast. She is the younger sister of Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands. She was unable to attend her brother Bobby Sands' funeral because she was on the run at the time.