Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has defended attending the funeral of senior IRA figure Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane last week.

Two years ago, the Sunday World interviewed Shankill Road pensioner Jim Verner (68) who on the day of the Shankill bomb ...

Rangers fans have staged their own banner protest slamming Celtic supporters who honoured an IRA bomber. It followed controversy over the Green Brigade’s tribute to Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane this week.

Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who died after a short illness last week, was remembered for his role in the 1983 Maze Prison escape while on the run with Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly ...

Members of a Celtic ultra supporters group paid tribute to former senior IRA man Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane ahead of a league ...

Scottish police have been urged to investigate after a banner honouring an IRA bomber was unfurled during a Celtic match.

Born in 1951, Brendan was raised in Ardoyne. He was the Officer Commanding IRA prisoners in Long Kesh during the 1981 hunger-strike when ten republicans died between May and August ­– taking over the ...

CELTIC fans have unveiled a banner in tribute to North Belfast republican Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane. The Green Brigade section ...

1991: The Kuwaiti capital is liberated by the Gulf War Allies after 208 days of Iraqi occupation. Coalition planes bomb retreating Iraqi forces, creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’. 1993: A car ...

Mr McFarlane, originally from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast ... In 1983, he was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the facility in Co Antrim. They used smuggled guns and knives to overpower ...

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, the party’s Donegal TD Pearse Doherty, Cavan-Monaghan TD Matt Carthy were among those who stood on the street outside the prominent republican’s home in Linden ...

McFarlane, originally from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast ... during the 1981 hunger strike over conditions in the Maze. In 1983, he was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the facility in Co Antrim.