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Mantenere Maze costa 500.000 sterline

Maintaining Maze costing £500,000

Maze - Long Kesh

More than £350,000 has been spent maintaining the listed buildings on the site the former Maze prison over the last four years.

The high-security prison, built to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles, was closed in 2000.

The jail’s hospital and part of the H-blocks are listed buildings.

The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister said last year they agreed a £225,000 contract for maintenance for the next three years.

The figures were contained in a reply from the OFM/DFM to a question by Sinn Fein’s Paul Butler.

A development corporation is to be set up to look at what to do with the former jail site after Sports Minister Gregory Campbell decided not to build a multi-sports stadium there earlier this year.

The prison started its life known as Long Kesh, a disused airfield used to house those detained under internment in the 1970s.

Later it would become the place of incarceration of paramilitaries, housed in new “H-Blocks” at the Maze – four wings off a central administration area.

During its time as a jail, it was the site of a hunger strike which saw 10 men die, a mass escape and the murder of a loyalist terrorist leader.

After the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and a series of prisoner released its cells gradually emptied, with the last four prisoners transferred in 2000.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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