SO, ANOTHER political scandal.

Lelia Doolan tells Pádraic Killeen how her remarkable documentary on Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has lessons for today’s protest movements.

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.

The 1981 hunger strikers are being commemorated today in Dublin.

The official inquiry into the murder of Loyalist prisoner Billy Wright in Maze Prison found there was no "state collusion'' in his killing, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson has told the UK's House of Commons today.

Jail chiefs braced themselves today for a major report of a £30m (€367m) UK government investigation into the 1997 murder inside the Maze Prison of loyalist Billy Wright, one of the North's most feared assassins.

A film about an IRA hunger strike in a prison in the North has won an international award tonight.

There will be no shrine to terrorism beside a £55m (€82m) multi-sports stadium proposed for the site of the former Maze Prison, Shaun Woodward insisted today.

A FORMER IRA jail chief attacked for claiming the organisation blocked a life-saving deal to end the 1981 hunger strike last night declared: “The truth’s on my side.”

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy will today face criticism of British government plans to locate a sports stadium at the site of the Maze Prison: which housed republican and loyalist prisoners.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has arrived in Cuba, where will meet Fidel Castro during the four-day visit.