At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...

His death, along with those of nine other hunger strikers, sent shockwaves through ... Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area.

Sinn Féin has paid tribute to former senior IRA member, Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane who has died after a short illness.