BLANKETMEN, first published in 2005, has been reprinted in 2016 with a new foreword by Richard English. 

MAZE prison escapee Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane was yesterday awarded €15,500 over his prosecution for the kidnap of supermarket boss Don Tidey in the 1980s.

A retired Detective Inspector has told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of how Donald Tidey was rescued from terrorist kidnappers in Co Leitrim in 1983 after a three-week ordeal.

Commemorations to mark the 25th anniversary of the IRA hunger strike are continuing across the North today.

The Maze Prison escapee Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane is set to face trial in connection with the kidnapping of a supermarket boss in 1983 after a Supreme Court judgement went against him today.

SINN FÉIN has stood over its controversial 20th anniversary celebration of the Maze breakout despite strong condemnation of the event from political parties North and South.