A Stormont body set up to oversee a £300m redevelopment of the former Maze prison site has said its role has been ...

He was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the Maze in Co Antrim in September 1983. They used smuggled guns and knives to overpower prison staff before hijacking a food lorry and driving to the main gate.

Former Maze Prison IRA escapee and senior Sinn Féin member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane has died. Mr McFarlane, who was in his seventies and originally from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast ...

Members of a Celtic ultra supporters group paid tribute to former senior IRA man Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane ahead of a league match on Tuesday night. It came just hours following his funeral in Belfast, ...

Mr McFarlane, who died on Friday, was IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. He had been imprisoned at the Maze for his part in the 1975 IRA bombing of a bar on the ...

He was more successful in 1983, when he led the Maze prison breakout in which 38 republican prisoners escaped. He quickly resumed his IRA activities. There was strong evidence that he was involved ...

Five people died when the Provisional IRA launched a bomb and gun attack on the Aberdeen Street boozer in August 1975. McFarlane was locked up in Maze prison and was part of the 'dirty protests ...

A senior IRA figure who oversaw the hunger strikes inside the Maze Prison has died. Brendan “Bik” McFarlane, known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history, died after a ...

It is important for people to have a “right to remember their dead”, senior Sinn Féin politician Pearse Doherty said as he ...

Scottish police have been urged to investigate after a banner honouring an IRA bomber was unfurled during a Celtic match.

Bryan Gregory, interim chief executive of the Maze Long Kesh Development ... Pacemaker Press Republican IRA and INLA inmates died during a hunger strike in the prison in 1981 In 2013, Stormont's ...