{"id":455103,"date":"2025-09-27T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455103\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:12:17","slug":"memories-of-the-maze-right-up-until-the-end-we-were-still-plotting-escapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/455103\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of the Maze: \u2018Right up until the end we were still plotting escapes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Some 25 years after the prison doors slammed shut for good, a former inmate and ex-governor recall their very different memories of high-security jail\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"General views of the former H Block Maze prison. Niall Carson\/PA Images via Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3083d2c9-6a74-4ded-b98f-9901a0464792.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">General views of the former H Block Maze prison. Niall Carson\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Once considered the most secure prison in Europe, it became the scene of protests and infamous escapes that made headlines around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But 25 years ago on Monday, the heavy steel doors of the Maze shut for the last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 25 years after the prison doors slammed shut for good, a former inmate and ex-governor recall their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[25912,22306,152855,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-455103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-allison-morris","9":"tag-ira","10":"tag-martin-mcguinness","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115275730186703933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}