A former senior member of the IRA, Brendan McFarlane was sent to the Maze Prison for his involvement in a bomb attack on a pub in the Shankhill Road which killed five people in 1975. He was ...

A senior IRA figure who oversaw the hunger strikes inside the Maze Prison has died. Brendan “Bik” McFarlane, known for taking ...

An IRA operation is underway ... It destroys the prison’s reputation and arguably paves the way for the Maze prison’s eventual closure. It had an impact that went way beyond itself and ...

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 ...

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.

Rangers fans have staged their own banner protest slamming Celtic supporters who honoured an IRA bomber. It followed controversy over the Green Brigade’s tribute to Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane this week.

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

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.

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.