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| No porridge on offer at former Crumlin Road jail in Belfast |
| By theguardian.com - Henry McDonald |
| Published: 08/30/2016 |
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When the ex-IRA prisoners Gerard Hodgins and Richard O’Rawe last passed through the gates of Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail their city was in a state of war and their one thought on entering the Victorian prison was to escape. They entered a regime of beatings at the hands of some prison staff, cockroach-infested cells, frequent clashes with their Ulster loyalist enemies and having to “slop out” in the morning if they went to the toilet during the nightly lock-up. Decades later, with the peace process entrenched and the prison now a tourist attraction, Hodgins, a former hunger striker, and O’Rawe, the IRA prisoners’ press officer during the 1981 death fast, have returned to Crumlin Road to sample the gourmet food on offer in the jail’s newly opened restaurant, Cuffs. As they tucked into chicken liver pâté and smoked salmon starters in what was once the main kitchen for feeding the prison, Hodgins and O’Rawe both used the same word to sum up their journey back to the jail: surreal. Read More. |
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