Michael Fassbender has done sci-fi, sword-and-sandal and slasher movies. But his latest role, as the IRA hunger striker Bobby ...

On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine ...

At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...

Jim Allister has questioned what would be lost if Stormont was to collapse again, pointing to the First Minister’s claim that ...

Former Rangers and Burnley player Joey Barton has been criticised after a making a post saying ‘tiocfaidh ár lá’ on social ...

In paying tribute, senior Sinn Féin and former IRA members majored on the hunger strikes and the Maze escape ... McFarlane was not chosen as one of the 1981 hunger strikers because of the ...

The pro-Union community in Northern Ireland needs to waken up and smell the political coffee by realising the Alliance Party ...

He’d park his car on the ‘rampart’, the stoney path into the bog, and ideas for characters and dialogue and openings and ...

He was the IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. McFarlane was imprisoned there for his part in a 1975 IRA attack at a pub in the Protestant Shankill Road area of Belfast.

However, the most essential movies of 2008 aren't necessarily the best. Instead, they're the ones that left the biggest impact on their genre or on the industry as a whole; the ones that most ...

We could have done with Norman Tebbit in the Commons this week, if only for dramatic variety. MPs were discussing welfare ...

Maeve Murphy is hoping to shine a spotlight on the 1981 murder of a sex worker in her new short film, exploring the powerful ...