Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who died after a short illness last week, was remembered for his role in the 1983 Maze Prison escape ...

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has led mourners attending the funeral of IRA veteran Brendan “Bik” McFarlane in west ...

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, the party’s Donegal TD Pearse Doherty, Cavan-Monaghan TD Matt Carthy were among those ...

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

Senior republicans were among large crowds who gathered for the funeral of senior IRA figure Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who ...

McFarlane, from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, was known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history.

Crowds, which included former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, Donegal TD Pearse Doherty, Cavan Monaghan TD Matt Carthy and North Belfast MP John ... He was among 38 IRA inmates who fled the ...

It is important for people to have a “right to remember their dead”, senior Sinn Féin politician Pearse Doherty said as he ...