A parade to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the IRA hunger strikes is to take place in Glasgow.

Irish republican organisation, Cairde na hEireann, and Oglagh Sean Mcilvenna republican flute band, is organising the march, from Barrowlands to the city centre and back, on Saturday October 3.

The event is to mark the hunger strikes in 1981 in which 10 prisoners died in the Maze Prison.

Glasgow City Council has been notified of the procession, by the organisers.

Bobby Sands was first to die in May, followed by nine others, in protest at the prisoners’ status. They wanted political prisoner status and be allowed to wear their own clothes.

It ended on October 3 when the remaining hunger strikers ended their protest.

The procession is due to star at Barrowlands Park and head along Moir Road, London Road and High Street before heading west along Ingram Street and into Queen Street.

It will turn left into St Vincent Place at the corner of George Square and go along St Vincent Street and down Renfield Street and Union Street and Jamaica Street.

When it reaches the River Clyde it will head back east along Clyde Street into Saltmarket, and Gallowgate returning to Barrowlands Park.

Around 200 people are expected to take part in the march.