Priest joins calls for release of Derry republican prisoner Tony Taylor
Seamus McKinney, The Irish News | 08 October 2016
A DERRY priest has joined a campaign for the release from prison of leading dissident republican Tony Taylor. Holy Family parish priest Fr Paddy O’Kane said he also prayed for Taylor’s case during Sunday Mass last week.
Third prisoner death at Maghaberry jail in the past month
Suzanne McGonagle, The Irish News | 30 November 2016
A PRISONER has been found dead in Maghaberry jail, the third death in the Co Antrim prison in the past month. It is understood the 34-year-old prisoner was found in his cell at the high security facility.
Mr Justice Treacy, sitting today in the High Court in Belfast, allowed a judicial review challenging the Prison Service policy by which forced strip searches are recorded on a video camera and retained for a period of six years
Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers
Barry McCaffrey, thedetail.tv | 15 April 2013
The Director of Public Prosecutions could be asked to reopen hundreds of Troubles-related cases involving killings from the 1970s following the discovery of statements in newly declassified papers which suggest soldiers were allowed to escape prosecution.
Agreement Reached on Dispute at Roe House in Maghaberry Prison
PFC | 12 August 2010
Following a protest by Republican prisoners in Roe House, the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) and the prisoners agreed to engage in a facilitation process. A Joint Facilitation Group (Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Creggan Enterprises and Dialogue Advisory Group) met both parties on a number...
NI Affairs Committee-The separation of paramilitary prisoners at HMP Maghaberry
NI Affairs Committee | 03 February 2004
Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Maghaberry is situated near Lisburn in County Antrim. It opened in 1986. Following the closure of HMP Belfast in 1996 and HMP Maze in 2000, Maghaberry was required to absorb and accommodate a number of different prisoner groups including remand prisoners and those...
Britain stands accused of helping known terrorists to assassinate suspected enemies of the state during the 1980s. A major, two-part Panorama investigation reveals the extent to which some members of the British intelligence services colluded with - and even tried to direct - loyalist death squads...
For God and Ulster: An Alternative Guide to the Loyal Orders
PFC | 11 April 1998
This alternative guide to the Loyal Orders is an attempt to fill a gap, a gap in information about semi-secret organisations which have played a major role in the history of this island and a gap in understanding as to why a significant number of people have a problem with those organisations. Few...
Outlines criteria for internment – explains why policy does not allow for arrest of loyalists except under certain circumstances. Poor quality copy but other copies below provide same detail.
Letter from Secretary of State William Whitelaw to General Officer Commanding Harry Tuzo outlining criteria for internment orders and why loyalists 'may not fall' within the new Order.