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

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

Republicans, who escalated their forms of protest over their treatment in prisons in subsequent years, used a novel approach ...

Stormont’s Economy Committee will meet today at the former Maze prison site as attempts are made to find a way forward so its ...

Brendan Bik McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was best known in republican circles as the officer commanding in the H-Blocks during the 1981 hunger strikes and for his role in the Maze prison ...

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 ...

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

Wall-fare, a support group started by Mr Shiu, was credited with helping families navigate the maze of prison bureaucracy – a need that became more urgent as thousands were imprisoned over Hong ...

McFarlane was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze during the 1981 hunger strike Former senior IRA man Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane has died. In 1976, he was jailed for a gun and bomb attack on the ...

He was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze during the 1981 hunger strike, where he was serving five life sentences for murder. McFarlane also led a mass escape of 38 inmates from the prison ...