A prison governor removed from his post after the suicide of an inmate in the North has been appointed head of Magilligan jail.

Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was being held in police custody.

A threatened strike by prison officers in the North has been averted after talks with the government, it was confirmed today.

The Prison Officers Association has condemned an attack on three female prison officers at Maghaberry Jail in Co Antrim over the weekend.

The head of a prison where an inmate hanged himself at the fourth attempt is to be replaced, it was disclosed today.

A prison officer at a high-security Antrim jail has been suspended while police investigate alleged drugs offences, it was confirmed today.

Two prison governors in the North face a disciplinary inquiry today after a damning report revealed that an inmate on suicide watch hanged himself in a secure unit where staff slept on duty.

Rivalries between two warring groups of UDA men have spilled over into the North's Maghaberry jail.

Hundreds of prisoners are locked in their cells at Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim today following a bomb alert.

Police fired shots today after a high risk prisoner escaped from a court room in Northern Ireland.

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Freed loyalist terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair will quit Britain in a bid to stay alive, it was claimed tonight.

Police were today investigating the death of a 49-year-old man in a Northern Ireland jail.

LOYALISTS yesterday threatened major disruption across the North unless strip-searches inside a top security jail are cut back.

Loyalists today threatened major disruption across Northern Ireland unless strip- searches inside a top security jail are cut back.

Loyalists staged a naked protest at a high-security Northern Ireland prison today over claims of intensified strip searches.

Loyalist prisoners are being forced into humiliating strip searches at a high security Northern Ireland prison, it was claimed tonight.

The British government was under fresh pressure tonight to hold a public inquiry soon into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

A loyalist awaiting trial for the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has been moved to a jail in England, it was confirmed today.

THE Ulster Defence Association (UDA) yesterday claimed to have extended its ceasefire indefinitely.

The Taoiseach is to hold talks with a group linked to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in Dublin tomorrow.

Loyalist representatives cannot effectively engage in the peace process unless there is an end to paramilitary violence on the streets, British security minister Jane Kennedy warned today.

The British government tonight avoided the possibility of a nationwide prison officers’ strike after reaching agreement over security measures for employees in the North.

The PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde has said that the two pipe bombs found in north Belfast last night are directly linked to the loyalist rioting at Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim.

Prison officers were tonight treated for shock and smoke inhalation after disturbances in Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim.

Up to 35,000 prison officers across the UK are threatening to go on strike over terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

Police were called in to run prisons in Northern Ireland tonight after warders failed to report for duty.

Northern Ireland’s top-security Maghaberry Prison is becoming unmanageable due to overcrowding, loyalist paramilitaries warned today.

Loyalists have been blamed for leaving an explosive device outside an ex-prison officer’s home in Northern Ireland.

A TOP security prison in Northern Ireland will be plunged into violent chaos unless republican and loyalist inmates are kept apart, it was claimed last night.

Parts of Belfast city centre were sealed off today as police negotiated with a man on the roof of a building who claimed to be protesting at the prison conditions at Maghaberry jail.

Prison officers who escort inmates to court in Northern Ireland have been ordered to scrap normal routes due to paramilitary death threats, it emerged today.

Republican dissidents campaigning for segregation from loyalists inside Maghaberry jail are believed to have been responsible for starting small fires in the prison last night.

Eight loyalist and republican inmates are negotiating with staff from the roof of the North's Maghaberry jail.

Discussions are underway this morning with inmates involved in a rooftop protest at Maghaberry jail in the north.

A group of prisoners were staging a rooftop protest at Maghaberry jail in Northern Ireland tonight.

BITTER enemies of Northern Ireland’s most feared sectarian warlord Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair taunted him yesterday over the defection of one of his closest associates.

A young female prisoner was today found dead in her cell at Maghaberry Jail.

Police tonight ordered round-the-clock surveillance on freed loyalist paramilitary chief Johnny Adair amid fears of new sectarian violence in Belfast.

UDA commander, Johnny Adair, is due for release from jail within the next two hours, with scores of loyalists gathering to greet him outside Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim.

A senior Special Branch officer told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that the Real IRA has carried out 80 terrorist type attacks since October, 1999, the most recent being a bomb attack on Maghaberry jail in the north last month.

Police and troops in Northern Ireland were on full alert today after a failed bomb attack on a high security prison.

Sinn Fein has advised nationalists to be on their guard following reports that members of the UDA are patrolling sectarian interfaces in north Belfast.

The Sentence Review Commission has ruled UDA leader Johnny Adair must remain in prison.