Maze prison

An investigation is underway by Stormont's Department for Infrastructure (DfI) after a traffic updates Twitter account retweeted an image of an IRA hunger striker memorial.

The former Sinn Fein president won a Supreme Court appeal in 2020 over historical convictions in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

Penalties for those who "romanticise violence" should be considered, a victims campaigner has said following a Sinn Féin online commemoration of IRA hunger striker Thomas McElwee.

IN A (professional) lifetime spent in and out of prisons, visits to Maghaberry and the Maze were among the strangest I made.

No further action is to be taken against Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly over a tweet around a mass escape from the Maze Prison by IRA terrorists.

PEACE centre plans at the former Maze prison site have been dropped by the project's development board, the UUP has claimed.

STORMONT chiefs granted Sinn Féin access to the Maze site after Michelle O'Neill raised concerns about a "deterioration" of the former prison's hospital wing.

Gerry Adams has been given the go-ahead to challenge two historic prison escape convictions at the UK's highest court.

The Balmoral Show is always a key occasion in the agricultural calendar and its 150th anniversary is by any standards a major landmark.

THE Hunger Strike and the deaths of 10 young IRA men in 1981 is one of those combustible periods in our recent historical past where many still recall the pervading tension all too clearly.