A Stormont body set up to oversee a £300m redevelopment of the former Maze prison site has said its role has been ...

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 ...

The hunger strikes by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze prison brought to a head five years of protest for their right to be treated as 'special category' political prisoners rather ...

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

Lagan Valley MLA Michelle Guy has said that with some strategic support the Eikon Centre could be a huge opportunity for ...

The DUP chairman of a Stormont committee reaffirmed that his party would block any move to develop a ‘shrine to terrorism’.

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 ...

If a rational and measured approach had been taken to decisions over what is officially known as the Maze Long Kesh (MLK) ...

Officials at Singapore’s Changi prison say its notoriously harsh conditions are aimed at deterring prisoners from reoffending and help them re-integrate into society after serving their sentence. But ...

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 ...