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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Lagan Valley MLA David Honeyford recently invited the Assembly Economy Committee to visit the former Maze Prison site in the ...

Two men in their 70s will be surrendered to Northern Ireland to face charges relating to the murder of a Royal Ulster ...

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Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast ... within the Maze by this time, having previously been elected as the IRA’s commanding officer within the prison.

Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News ... a peace centre at the Maze in 2013 over claims it would become a “shrine to terrorism”. The former prison only comprises part ...

McFarlane was jailed in 1976 for his part in a gun and bomb attack on the Bayardo Bar in Belfast in which five ... IRA prisoners who escaped from the Maze Prison in Co Antrim in 1983.