A funeral in Belfast heard that achieving a united Ireland ... McFarlane ended up in Maze Prison after being convicted for a ...

It destroys the prison’s reputation and arguably paves the way for the Maze prison’s eventual closure ... a libel case comes before a judge in Belfast, where the plaintiff is one of the ...

Two Maze escapees will be surrendered to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the murder of an RUC officer in Derry ...

HM Prison Maze was built on the disused Long Kesh RAF base, south-west of Belfast. Paramilitary prisoners had been held in 'long huts' there during 'internment' (imprisonment without trial ...

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 ...

A Stormont body set up to oversee a £300m redevelopment of the former Maze prison site has said its role has been "essentially limited to health and safety". Plans to regenerate the site near ...

Stormont’s Economy Committee will meet today at the former Maze prison site as attempts are made to find a way forward so its potential for development isn’t lost. Alliance MLA David Honeyford ...

He tried to escape from the Maze Prison in 1978 dressed as a priest but ... round-trips each of 320km to the court from his home in Belfast. McFarlane was a firm supporter of the peace process ...

Maze Prison, Belfast. Kelly arrested in Holland and arriving in court in Lisburn after extradition from Holland. Photograph of Ken Maginnis. The reporter is Michael Fisher.

McFarlane was sent to Maze Prison after being convicted of a deadly ... "He was a huge part of getting me elected as an MLA for North Belfast in 1998. "He had no interest in becoming an elected ...