ONE of the top IRA prisoners in the Maze during the hunger strike wanted John Hume to act as an intermediary to end the protest, state papers have revealed.

A film about the Bobby Sands hunger strike which scooped an honour at Cannes will “have a resonance across the world”, its co-producer said.

Republicans were tonight preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands with a number of events throughout Ireland.

THE headstone of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was shattered by vandals who desecrated the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast, it emerged last night.

A bumbling attempt to scare a newspaper reporter off a story last year has mushroomed into an FBI probe that has left some of Hollywood’s elite wondering if their phones were illegally tapped.

THE estate of the late Jimi Hendrix is worth an estimated $300,000 million and growing, while the bass player with the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience band is selling up his Irish home for the last 29 years to trade down to a cheaper place.