Maze inmate insists IRA blocked hunger strike deal

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.”

Maze inmate insists IRA blocked hunger strike deal

Richard O’Rawe, the Provisionals’ spokesman inside the Maze Prison, revealed he has been ostracised for alleging the leadership refused a package of British concessions.

Margaret Thatcher’s administration was prepared to meet nearly all of the demands in a move that would have halted the protest just before the fifth prisoner died, he insisted.

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