Plans to regenerate the site near Lisburn have been in limbo for almost 12 years due to a political row.

The DUP chairman of a Stormont committee reaffirmed that his party would block any move to develop a ‘shrine to terrorism’.

HM Prison Maze was built on the disused Long Kesh RAF base, south-west of Belfast. Paramilitary prisoners had been held in 'long huts' there during 'internment' (imprisonment without trial ...

On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh ... the Maze by this time, having previously been elected as the IRA’s commanding officer within the prison.

MLK was of course previously used as a high security prison, housing thousands of ... However, when the chief executive of the Maze Long Kesh Development Corporation, Brian Gregory, spoke to ...

Demonstrations were also held in New York and London. A statement read on behalf of the Republican prisoners in the Maze-Prison, Long Kesh demanded political status and said “as a further ...

A senior IRA figure who oversaw the hunger strikes inside the Maze Prison has died ... our comrades lost their lives in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. “Bik was a talented singer, songwriter and ...

McFarlane was sentenced to life in prison in 1976 for his role in an attack ... of our comrades lost their lives in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. “Bik was a talented singer, songwriter and musician ...

A Stormont body set up to oversee a £300m redevelopment of the former Maze prison site has said its role has been "essentially limited to health and safety". Plans to regenerate the site near ...