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10/09/2012
Glentoran Chairman To Head Maze Redevelopment
The chairman of Glentoran Football Club, Terence Brannigan, has been appointed to lead the transformation of the former Maze prison site.
Mr Brannigan is also a director of the creative arts charity, The Pushkin Trust.
The DUP member is a visiting Professor at the Business Institute of the University of Ulster and was previously chairman of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Northern Ireland.
He has been selected to be chairman of the new Maze/Long Kesh Development Corporation and oversee the £300m redevelopment of the 350-acre former prison near Lisburn.
Mr Brannigan said: "We need to ensure we join with politicians, the community and business groups to get everybody buying into the potential of this site, so we can deliver for the people of Northern Ireland."
A conflict resolution centre is planned for the site, to include exhibition space, archives and a place for visitors from around the world to exchange views on conflict transformation.
It will be designed by Daniel Libeskind, a world-renowned architect who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and is working on the memorials for Ground Zero in New York.
The centre will sit alongside a preserved H block and other buildings, including the chapel and the hospital where the hunger strikers died.
(NE)
Mr Brannigan is also a director of the creative arts charity, The Pushkin Trust.
The DUP member is a visiting Professor at the Business Institute of the University of Ulster and was previously chairman of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Northern Ireland.
He has been selected to be chairman of the new Maze/Long Kesh Development Corporation and oversee the £300m redevelopment of the 350-acre former prison near Lisburn.
Mr Brannigan said: "We need to ensure we join with politicians, the community and business groups to get everybody buying into the potential of this site, so we can deliver for the people of Northern Ireland."
A conflict resolution centre is planned for the site, to include exhibition space, archives and a place for visitors from around the world to exchange views on conflict transformation.
It will be designed by Daniel Libeskind, a world-renowned architect who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and is working on the memorials for Ground Zero in New York.
The centre will sit alongside a preserved H block and other buildings, including the chapel and the hospital where the hunger strikers died.
(NE)
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