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

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 ...

McFarlane was also convicted of IRA membership and given a further two ... the ringleaders among 38 prisoners who escaped from the Maze Prison in September 1983. He led a number of escapees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has defended attending the funeral of senior IRA figure Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane last week.

You can check out at any time. More info A former senior IRA figure who oversaw the hunger strikes inside the Maze Prison has died. Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, known for taking part in the biggest ...

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 ...

McFarlane 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 ...