Maze Prison 'a site for Olympic soccer'

A £55m (€81m) stadium on the site of Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison could stage three Olympic soccer matches in 2012 if the project gets the go-ahead from the British government, it emerged today.

As Londoners celebrated the awarding of the 2012 Games to their city, sources close to a bid to build a new 30,000 seater stadium on the site of the jail, where 10 republican hunger strikers died in 1981, suggested today’s decision by the International Olympic Committee could boost funding for the project.