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flag Former IRA leader Brendan "Bik" McFarlane, key in the 1981 Maze hunger strike, has died.

flag Brendan "Bik" McFarlane, a senior IRA figure and key organizer of the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strikes, has died after a short illness. flag McFarlane was imprisoned for a 1975 bombing that killed five people and later escaped with 37 others in the UK's largest prison breakout in 1983. flag He was recaptured in the Netherlands and released in 1998. flag Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald praised him as a patriot and a leader in the fight for Irish unity.

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