was arrested in March 1972 and interned on the Maidstone prison ship in Belfast Lough before being moved to Long Kesh Detention Centre. He was ­released in mid-June 1972. Shortly afterwards ...

He joined the Provisional IRA early in the Troubles and was interned twice in the 1970s, on the Maidstone prison ship and in Long ... which in 2017 crashed the Northern Executive for three years.

HMS Maidstone was an old ... to squeeze out the portholes of the ship and swam 270 meters through an ice-cold Belfast Lough in a bid to escape the floating prison. The near naked men then hijacked ...

A Visual Journey is a stunning collection of images, spanning all four provinces. Daltun takes us from his own thriving wild rainforest, Bofickil, in southwestern Ireland and Glenveagh National ...

There are 175 vacancies across the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS), according to new figures, at a time when the prison population and attacks on officers are on the rise. Of the vacancies ...

which could carry a 10-year prison sentence. The Border Force will be given new powers to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse images from abroad, including by allowing officers to call for ...

Confusion as map shows north unaffected by stormOpens in new window The Met Office has warned Storm Éowyn could bring gusts in excess of 80mph on exposed on coasts in Northern Ireland ...

Creators of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse will face up to five years in prison in a new government crackdown. The new offence will be punishable by up to five years in prison.

A yellow weather warning for fog has been issued for parts of Northern Ireland. The Met Office said it came into effect at 00:00 GMT on Wednesday and is due to last until 11:00. It is active ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

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