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

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

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

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 ...

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

An audacious escape – the biggest from a prison in Britain and Ireland ever, and the biggest in Europe since the Second World War. I’m Carlo Gébler and once upon a time I worked in HMP Maze ...

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, known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history, died after a “short illness” on ...

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 ...

Former Maze Prison IRA escapee and senior Sinn Féin member Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane has died. Mr McFarlane, who was in his seventies and originally from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast ...

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.

Teresa Njoroge, a former bank official, served a one-year sentence at Lang’ata Women’s Prison for a crime she insists she did not commit. “I was maliciously arrested, falsely accused ...