Top Provo in H-Block sought Hume as broker

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 priest urged the then SDLP leader to act as go-between and liaise with the British government and inmates on an offer for new jail rules after nine men haddied.

Fr McEldowney, who had unrestricted access to the hunger strikers, said theproposal had come from “a prominent member of the Provisionals in the H- Blocks”.