Plans to regenerate the site near Lisburn have been in limbo for almost 12 years due to a political row.

Political agreement is needed to unlock the potential for development at the site of the former Maze prison, MLAs have been told. It came as the DUP chairman of a Stormont committee reaffirmed tha ...

Stormont’s Economy Committee will meet today at the former Maze prison site as attempts are made to find a way forward so its ...

Mr McFarlane, who died on Friday, was IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. He had been imprisoned at the Maze for his part in the 1975 IRA bombing of a bar on the ...

A senior IRA figure who oversaw the hunger strikes inside the Maze Prison has died. Brendan “Bik” McFarlane, known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history, died after a ...

Brendan Bik McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was best known in republican circles as the officer commanding in the H-Blocks during the 1981 hunger strikes and for his role in the Maze prison ...

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 ...