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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

He went on to become the officer in command of the H-Block prisoners during the 1981 hunger strike over conditions in the Maze. In 1983, he was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the facility in Co Antrim.

McFarlane later became the officer in command of the H-Block prisoners during the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze. In 1983, he was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the prison. They used smuggled guns ...

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