A three-day rooftop protest at Maghaberry Prison ended today when the remaining prisoners climbed off the roof.

Hopes for an end to the protest at Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim were raised today when one of the four inmates climbed down off the roof.

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.

Four prisoners were tonight staging a rooftop protest in a county Antrim jail, just days after the British government commissioned a review of prison safety.